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Picture-in-Picture is supported only in Safari web browser. Your Mac must be running macOS Sierra, which is currently available as a developer beta, to let you use PiP. How to Enable Picture-in-Picture for YouTube Videos in macOS Sierra Step #1. First off, you need to launch Safari on your Mac running macOS Sierra.
Sep 27, 2016 - Watch video using Picture in Picture on your Mac. Open a video with any app that supports Picture in Picture, such as Safari or iTunes. Safari supports Picture in Picture with webpages that use HTML5 for video playback, such as YouTube and Vimeo. Click in the video's playback controls.
1:54 Apple's new desktop software, MacOS Sierra, offers a way to watch a video while you continue to go about your business on your Mac - and it's substantially better than attempting to resize a browser window just so. With Sierra's new picture-in-picture (PIP) feature, you can pop out a video from Safari or iTunes to a floating player so you keep an eye on it while you busy yourself elsewhere on your desktop. Here's how MacOS Sierra's PIP feature works and its current limitations. Safari or iTunes only You need to use Safari or iTunes in order to use PIP, and only certain video players in Safari support it. Vimeo, for example, supports PIP. When you are playing a video in Vimeo, just click the button on the video player that sits between the AirPlay and full-screen buttons.
The video will pop out of Vimeo and play in a PIP window in one of the four corners of your Mac desktop. You'll see the same PIP button when playing videos in iTunes. Matt Elliott/CNET Other sites don't support Sierra's PIP player, including Facebook, Twitter and Netflix, though perhaps these sites and others will add support in the future. YouTube workaround YouTube's video player doesn't offer the PIP button, but there is a way to pop out YouTube videos to the PIP player. Right-click twice on a video in YouTube and choose Enter Picture-in-Picture from the menu.