HN: What I would like is a small floating PIP (Picture in picture) type window, which is always on top - but has controls over it when hovered upon - but can play any videos that I choose to view.
(Picture the little 'selfie-screen' you see of yourself when in facetime, but in the corner of your desktop)
Imagine if you're reading a webpage - and it wants to serve you a video in addition to the article. I'd like to throw the vid to my PIP - which is the size and location of my choosing - and can even be on another desktop, or even device. I want to drop any vid to this always present, or always summonable, little box and have it BEHAVE.
It can have a control panel - history - playlit - etc... and use FFMPEG or VLC as a back-end - but I need what is effectively a 'familiar for video'
Anything close to this exist?
What would be great is a 'Master Familiar' which can be commanded to spawn clones of itslef pointing to different channels of content of my bidding.
"Hey PIP - cast a CNN, HBO, Family guy episode 3 and /r/videos channel" and four PIP boxes appear. I can toss them to wherever I want them to show up/organize them.