
This feature is best for longer web videos, such as 20 minutes or more where you can get to work on other tasks and apps and it isn’t really worth it for a three minute video. It is compact and more visually pleasing than a browser window.Ī video can be placed out of the way in the corner of the screen while you do something else, like work, web browsing and so on. There are no borders, no browser controls, just the video and minimal playback controls. Picture in Picture is a feature of Chrome and Safari that enables the video to be broken out of the browser window and placed on the desktop. This is not a problem on a desktop computer with a big screen like the Apple iMac, but it is a problem on a MacBook with a small screen. It also means that the video takes up more desktop space than it needs to. It is messy and this detracts from the visual quality of the video. The main one is that the browser window has a tab bar, address box, buttons, and borders. It is easy to do but there are several irritations. To do this, the web page with the video must be in its own window.


Sometimes you want to watch web video, such as YouTube, Vimeo and other streaming web video, while doing other tasks, such as working, browsing the web, word processing, and so on. Did you know you can start a web video playing in a browser and then break it out into its own window on the desktop? Watch video in a mini player while you work on other tasks on your Mac.
