{"id":7148,"date":"2021-04-02T23:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T21:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/the-chromebook-video-player-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-better\/"},"modified":"2021-04-03T01:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:27:53","slug":"the-chromebook-video-player-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/the-chromebook-video-player-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-better\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chromebook Video Player Is About To Get A Whole Lot Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is finally getting around to making the Chromebook video player better, reports indicate. And that&#8217;s not just better in terms of performance, necessarily, either. Instead, the company appears to be focused on delivering a modern, sleek UI.<br \/>\nThe new UI is also already readily accessible, at least for some users.<br \/>\nWhat does this update do for the UI?<br \/>\nThe biggest visual change here is that the new UI isn&#8217;t packed into a bottom-bar interface. The current media player is based on an older HTML5-based video plugin. So the playback bar, play\/pause button, full screen, volume, and overflow UI are all on the bottom. They kind of half-overlay the video with a darkened tint.<br \/>\nThe new UI is based on the Media app that&#8217;s already in use for photo viewing and moderate editing. And, instead of the bottom-bar UI, it uses a floating UI that&#8217;s not wholly dissimilar to QuickTime. Google has moved all of the controls there, including a new skip forward\/backward button, system-independent volume controls, and PiP features.<br \/>\nWhen is a better video player coming for your Chromebook?<br \/>\nNow, as noted above, the update is only going to be available for some users. That&#8217;s because the better Chromebook video player is tucked behind an experimental flag and on the Canary Channel of Chrome OS. That&#8217;s arguably the most difficult channel to get to and undeniably buggy. In fact, it&#8217;s beyond usability for most day-to-day users. So it&#8217;s effectively out of reach for most.<br \/>\nThe fact that it is in the Canary Channel, flag setting or not, shows that it&#8217;s going to arrive much sooner than later. Potentially within the next several updates. It could arrive as early as early June with Chrome 91 or in mid-April with Chrome 90. Although it could also arrive later with Chrome 92 \u2014 in late July \u2014 or later.<\/p>\n<p>The post The Chromebook Video Player Is About To Get A Whole Lot Better appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/02-Acer-Chromebook-Spin-311-Review-Display-DG-AH-2020.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is finally getting around to making the Chromebook video player better, reports indicate. And that&#8217;s not just better in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7149,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}