PiP (Picture in Picture) mode doesn't work on YouTube anymore

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Description of the issue:
Opening Picture in Picture opens a white box on the bottom right that doesn’t show anything

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Oddly, when I switch the quality to 240p, it starts working (even if I switch back) as shown below

Also, it seems to work perfectly fine on Reddit.

I tried solving it as described in this thread including -

  • Disabling Hardware Acceleration
  • Opening in a new user profile
  • Opening in incognito
  • Enabling, disabling auto-hide Ubuntu task-bar.

None of the above worked

Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.0.0 Chromium: 78.0.3904.97 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Environment
Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Gnome 3.28.2
Quadro K620/PCIe/SSE2
Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-1650 v4 @ 3.60GHz × 12
Memory 31.3 GiB

Additional Information:

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same issue, works a-ok on pretty much all websites, but youtube doesnt even have the PiP option anymore and if you force it its all fuck-y

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Have you tried 3rd party PiP addons?

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Not really. Tried the official Google PiP extension but that had the same effect.

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Just ugpraded to Version 1.0.1 Chromium: 78.0.3904.108 (Official Build) (64-bit), doesn’t solve it.
Although it does introduce a new bug of being unable to move the tab without detaching it from the window. Can’t reattach it back to the window either.

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same issue, window becomes unmoveable and doesnt display the video, it gets fixed if you move it around using Win + Arrow keys a bunch, I have no clue why tbh

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not a single issue with chrome, this is 100% a brave thing, tried on ~5 different pc’s, all running Win10 and the latest version of brave, all had the same outcome, it didint happen on chrome with any of them,
used intel cpu and amd cpu, same outcome
used nvidia gpu and intel integrated GPU, same outcome

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Just tested by on a fresh install of chrome.

As of Chrome Version 78.0.3904.108 (Official Build) (64-bit), it seems to be working perfectly with no problems.

Since brave is based on the same version, I doubt this is a chrome problem.

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