element-hq / element-hq/element-call

Picture-in-picture button shown on video preview in Firefox

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O-Frequent S-Tolerable T-Defect Z-Platform-Specific
Dominant language
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Description

### Steps to reproduce

1. I can't think of a reason to allow the preview webcam feed to be displayed in the picture in picture mode

### Outcome

#### What did you expect?

#### What happened instead?

On Firefox it adds some UI overlay that looks misplaced

![Screenshot 2023-09-20 at 10 18 53](https://github.com/vector-im/element-call/assets/769871/11d94613-60c0-4379-9a88-d6837ab290a6)

### Operating system

_No response_

### Browser information

_No response_

### URL for webapp

_No response_

### Will you send logs?

Yes

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by locating the webcam preview video and checking how Firefox exposes its picture-in-picture controls. Reproduce the preview in Firefox and compare it with other browsers; done means the misplaced picture-in-picture overlay is absent while the webcam preview still works.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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