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Why sometimes when I press media control keys, it controls other apps but not Firefox? Or, other apps are also being controlled at the same time?Įach platform has its own mechanism for which applications control audio. In this case, the tab the picture-in-picture video belongs to would always be the tab that is being controlled. If there are multiple tabs playing at the same time, you could control the last tab playing media, unless you are playing in Picture-in-Picture mode. If I have multiple tabs playing media, which tab would be controlled? Inaudible media (silent videos that don't have an audio track, such as GIF-like images).Mediafrom web-audio and web-speech cannot be controlled. What kinds of media can NOT be controlled by this feature? If a playable media enters picture-in-picture mode.If an audible media is playing from audio and video, then it’s able to be controlled.What kinds of media can be controlled by this feature?Ĭurrently we only support controlling media playing from audio and video, so it cannot control media from web-audio and web-speech.
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#Mac audio player with playback control windows
You can use this feature on MacOS (OSX 10.12.1 or above), Windows (Windows 8.1 or above), and Linux (gtk-based distributions). This depends on website developers using the MediaSession API.