Officially support Chromium's new documentPictureInPicture API

[jpodwys]

Twilio employee Donal Toomey requested that I create this issue.

I'd like to request official documentPictureInPicture support. Today, Twilio's very nice efficiency features (pausing tracks when a tab is backgrounded) result in pausing all video feeds in a documentPictureInPicture context. I've forked Twilio's SDK to support this. Would love to see official support so we can get back onto the main repo.

I'm also happy to share the changes I made, although they were more brute force than surgical.

Thank you!

[jpodwys]

@donaltoomey is there any update here?

[charliesantos]

@jpodwys we have a work in progress PR for this feature. Can you please have a look and see if it addresses your needs? TIA! https://github.com/twilio/twilio-video.js/pull/2093/files

[jpodwys]

Thank you for working on this!
I'll need to get work to approve some time for me to pull this branch, build it, and test it locally.

[charliesantos]

This is now supported in 2.31.0

[jpodwys]

Sorry for the delay - I was able to get this prioritized. Unfortunately, the latest release (2.31.0) still permanently pauses video tracks after backgrounding the browser tab that spawned the PiP window. Here's a screen recording showing this behavior. Please let me know if you have any questions.

TwilioDemoFast480p.mov

[charliesantos]

Thank you for trying it out @jpodwys . Can you provide me access to the app that reproduces the issue? Also, are you able to reproduce it using our quickstart? https://github.com/twilio/video-quickstart-js/

[jpodwys]

Thank you for the fast response!
Yes, I'm able to reproduce this using Twilio's quickstart application. Here's a screen recording

TwilioDemoAppRepro480p.mov

[charliesantos]

Thanks @jpodwys . We'll take a look at it more.

[jpodwys]

Thank you!

[jpodwys]

Can we please reopen this issue?