Available in Firefox version 71 for Windows and 72 for MacOS and Linux, the Picture-in-Picture feature allows you to pop videos out of their webpage into a floating, always on top, window so you can watch while continuing to work in other tabs. You can move the Picture-in-Picture window around the screen and resize it to your liking.
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When a video is in Picture-in-Picture view, the video placeholder on the page shows the message This video is playing in Picture-in-Picture mode. You can still use the video controls on the placeholder, such as play/pause, volume, and full screen. Disabling the Picture-in-Picture toggle. Find the best free stock images about screen saver. Download all photos and use them even for commercial projects.
- 1Using picture-in-picture
- 4Disabling the Picture-in-Picture toggle
Toggle
The Picture-in-Picture toggle appears when you hover over videos with the mouse cursor. Clicking on this will open the underlying video in the Picture-in-Picture player window.
Using audacity for podcasts. If you have never used Picture-in-Picture before, it will appear as a small blue rectangle that slides out when you hover over it to explain the feature.
Once you have used Picture-in-Picture, it will appear as an icon over the video:
This feature is designed to work on most web videos. Though some videos will not display the toggle hovering over it. We only show it for videos that include an audio track, and that are also of sufficient size and play length.
Note that the toggle doesn't appear when a video is on full screen.
Full-screen view
Double-click the picture-in-picture player window to view the video in full-screen. Double-click again to exit full-screen. Save screen as pdf.
Context Menu
Another way to access Picture-in-Picture is via the context menu. If right-click on a web video, you'll sometimes see the media context menu that looks like this:
There's a Picture-in-Picture menu item in that context menu that you can use to toggle the feature.
Many sites, however, make it difficult to access the context menu for web videos. YouTube, for example, overrides the default context menu with their own.
You can get to the default native context menu by either holding Shift while right-clicking, or double right-clicking.
When a video is on full screen, the Picture-in-Picture menu item is not included in the context menu. You have to exit full screen to switch to Picture-in-Picture through the blue toggle or the context menu. (Note: The keyboard shortcut works on full screen.)
Keyboard shortcuts
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To access via the keyboard press the combination Ctrl + Shift + ]Cmd + Shift + ] or Ctrl + Shift + }Cmd + Shift + }. Firefox will attempt to launch the most relevant video on the page into a Picture-in-Picture window.
The following shortcuts are available for playback and volume controls:
- Ctrl + ↓command + ↓: Mute
- Ctrl + ↑command + ↑: Unmute
- ↓: Volume decrease
- ↑: Volume increase
- ←: Seek back 15 seconds
- →: Seek forward 15 seconds
- Ctrl + ←command + ←: Seek back 10%
- Ctrl + →command + →: Seek forward 10%
- Home: Seek to beginning of video
- End: Seek to end of video
- Space: Pause/Continue
The Picture-in-Picture window also gives you the ability to quickly play or pause the video — hovering the video with your mouse will expose that control, as well as a control for closing the window, and closing the window while returning you to the tab that the video came from.
When a video is in Picture-in-Picture view, the video placeholder on the page shows the message This video is playing in Picture-in-Picture mode. You can still use the video controls on the placeholder, such as play/pause, volume, and full screen.
If you prefer to disable the blue toggle, so it does not appear over top of videos there are two easy ways to do that. Either on a site that has a supported video or in the Settings menu.
Using the Picture-in-Picture toggle to disable it
- Find a video where you can see the blue Picture-in-Picture toggle.
- Right click on the blue toggle.
- Click Hide Picture-in-Picture toggle.
Enabling / disabling the Picture-in-Picture toggle in Settings
If you don't want to see the controls while hovering, you can hide that option in Firefox. (Note: You can still turn on picture-in-picture view by right-clicking on a video.) Or you can use this to re-enable the control when you want to use it again.
- Click the menu button and select ..
- Scroll down to the Browsing section.
- Clear the check mark for 'Enable picture-in-picture video controls'.
If you later want to re-enable the controls, simply add back the check mark.
Winky Dink and You was a CBS children's television show that aired from 1953 to 1957, on Saturday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Eastern / 9:30 Central. It was hosted by Jack Barry and featured the exploits of a cartoon character named Winky Dink (voiced by Mae Questel) and his dog Woofer, with sound effects provided by Joseph Scholnick.[1] The show, created by Harry Prichett, Sr. and Ed Wyckoff, featured Barry and his sidekick, the incompetent Mr. Bungle (veteran children's show voice actor Dayton Allen), introducing clips of Winky Dink, who was noted for his plaid pants, tousled star-shaped hair, and large eyes.[2]
Interactivity[edit]
The central gimmick of the show, praised by Microsoft mogul Bill Gates as 'the first interactive TV show',[3] was the use of a 'magic drawing screen'—a piece of vinyl plastic that stuck to the television screen via static electricity. A kit containing the screen and various Winky Dink crayons could be purchased for 50 cents. At a climactic scene in every Winky Dink short film, Winky would arrive on a scene that contained a connect-the-dots picture that could be navigated only with the help of viewers. Winky Dink then would prompt the children at home to complete the picture, and the finished result would help him continue the story. Examples included drawing a bridge to cross a river, using an axe to chop down a tree, or creating a cage to trap a dangerous lion.
Another use of the interactive screen was to decode messages. An image would be displayed, showing only the vertical lines of the letters of the secret message. Viewers would then quickly trace onto their magic screen, and a second image would display the horizontal lines, completing the text.
Show Me A Picture Of The Screen
A final use of the screen was to create the outline of a character with whom Jack Barry would have a conversation. It would seem meaningless to viewers without the screen, further encouraging its purchase.
Origin[edit]
Harry Prichett came up with the core idea in the 1950s of drawing on the screen when working as a graphic designer for an advertising agency that had the account for Benrus Watches, a principal sponsor of Your Show of Shows, NBC's Saturday evening variety show starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Benrus reported that a number of its dealers had to deal with viewers who were angry to find that the expensive wristwatch on one of the commercials could not be bought for $39.95. (This is roughly equivalent to $390 in 2019, but was considered a modest price for a fine watch at that time.) The agency was concerned that viewers were not seeing the 'and up' after the '$39.95' because early TV sets varied in overscan by which they 'cut off' the edges of the picture. Agency staffers were asked to watch the show and report back what was visible on their screens. Prichett decided to put a piece of cellulose acetate film, a standard tool in graphic arts at the time, over the screen so he could use a grease pencil to sketch exactly which parts of the commercial were visible. As he waited, he started to add drawings to the images on the screen, then erase them and add new ones. It seemed obvious to him that children would enjoy working this way with their television sets.
Cancellation and revival[edit]
The program was successful because of its pioneering interactive marketing scheme, and Winky Dink became one of television's most popular characters of the 1950s. However, its production was halted despite its popularity, because of concerns about x-rays from TV picture tubes. This was particularly true for early color television sets. CBS also was concerned about parents' complaints that children who did not possess the interactive screen were drawing directly on the TV screen.
The show was revived in syndication for 65 episodes, beginning in 1969 and ending in 1973. In the 1990s, a new 'Winky Dink Kit' was sold, containing a screen, crayons, and all-new digitized Winky Dink and You episodes.[4]
References[edit]
- ^Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series. Scarecrow Press. pp. 310–311. ISBN0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 910. ISBN978-1476665993.
- ^Bob Greene (March 31, 2013). 'Winky Dink and .. Bill Gates?'. CNN. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^Peter Hartlaub (April 13, 2002). 'In sync with Winky Dink / Vintage TV show, now out on video, wins over kids in the joystick set'. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
External links[edit]
- Winky-Dink and You (1953) on IMDb
- Winky Dink and You (1969) on IMDb
