Building Modern Web Media Experiences: Picture-in-Picture and AV1
summary
Chrome measures almost 40,000 years of video watched per day and 30% of time on Chrome for Android is watching video so the talk focuses on concrete features and results: how to call requestPictureInPicture, handle enter/leave and size events, combine PiP with screen capture and media streams (demo on Glitch), AV1 delivering ~30% size reduction over VP9 and Chrome shipping an AV1 decoder, seamless codec switching via changeType, and the mediaCapabilities API returning supported smooth and powerEfficient flags where YouTube sees MTBR +7.1% and resolution −0.5%.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 2:25Picture-in-Picture
- 8:36Window Media Controls
- 10:12Angie Chiang
- 11:51VP9 = Scientific Proof
- 12:23AV1 - Better Coding Efficiency
- 12:59Alliance For Open Media
- 16:33Support
