🎥 open-pip

Module that will let you open a movie url/path in macOS native picture-in-picture player.

Both local files and urls are supported.

Known working formats

• mp4
• m4v
• mov

Known not working formats

• mkv
• avi

example

install

yarn add open-pip

Usage

const open = require('open-pip')
 
open('/path/to/movie.mp4')
  .then(() => console.log('Worked 🎉'))
  .catch(error => console.log('Something went wrong 💀', error))

How does it work?

It uses child-process-promise to run this command:

open pip.app --args <absolute-path-to-file>

pip.app is a simple macOS app that reads the input argument and tries to load it in an AVPlayer

Source for pip.app can be found here: https://github.com/albinekb/open-pip-app

Related

• open-pip-cli - CLI for this module.
• open-pip-menubar - A mac menubar app to open videos in PiP mode.

Credits

Inspiration came from this hack: https://github.com/steve228uk/PiPHack

Author

Albin Ekblom (@albinekb)