Although it is increasingly common to use two screens on a computer , many users have more than enough to use one, either on a desktop or a laptop. However, that does not mean that two tasks are done at the same time, one of them being watching videos or series and movies on platforms. Now, a new program is going to make it easier for you to multitask.
We are talking about uView Player Lite , a free PiP video player that has support for a multitude of streaming platforms. One of its great advantages is its reduced memory consumption, not having a great impact on the performance of our computer.
Any thumbnail video at your fingertips
The program can be downloaded at this link . Once installed, the interface opens in which we have to choose the streaming platform whose link we want to see, and then put the link. You may be asked to install additional elements if you do not have them installed, such as Microsoft Edge Webview2 Runtime , necessary to render web content within a program without having to use a web browser to do so.
To reproduce a content, all you have to do is copy the link, and the program analyzes the clipboard content automatically to detect the links and start playing them automatically.
One of the most useful platforms that can benefit from this functionality is Twitch, where we can watch a miniature stream while we are doing other things, and maximize it when we want to see something in full screen. The program is always in the foreground , even when we are playing if we put the game in windowed borderless mode. This makes it ideal for example to watch a video of a game guide while we play and thus be able to pass the level if we do not have another screen available at hand with this simple floating window.
There is also an extension for Chrome
The player has several buttons at the top. The first allows us to block the window so that, even if we click on it, it does nothing. To close it, we can go to the taskbar and right-click on the icon. We can also add content to favorites, minimize, maximize or close. If we close it, we return to the program interface to add another link.
In addition to the program, we can also use it with an extension in Chrome. The problem is that this option is not recommended because the extension requires reading and modifying the data of all the websites we visit, and we do not know the reliability of the developer. In the event that you dare to install it, for example, in a browser other than the main one you use, we just have to click the extension button so that the playback begins in the small window.