✨(frontend) cap and paginate tiles in picture-in-picture

Cap PiP grid at 5 tiles per page with active-speaker priority and pagination.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to
 
 ### Added
 
+- ✨(frontend) cap and paginate tiles in picture-in-picture #1383
 - 📝(docs) document rebranding the favicon via a volume mount #1443
 - ✨(backend) add command to clean pending and deleted files
 - 🧱(helm) run clean files command as cronjob

src/frontend/src/features/pip/components/layout/PipPagination.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+import { RiArrowLeftSLine, RiArrowRightSLine } from '@remixicon/react'
+import { useTranslation } from 'react-i18next'
+import { styled } from '@/styled-system/jsx'
+
+interface PipPaginationProps {
+  totalPageCount: number
+  currentPage: number
+  nextPage: () => void
+  prevPage: () => void
+}
+
+export const PipPagination = ({
+  totalPageCount,
+  currentPage,
+  nextPage,
+  prevPage,
+}: PipPaginationProps) => {
+  const { t } = useTranslation('rooms', { keyPrefix: 'pagination' })
+
+  if (totalPageCount <= 1) return null
+
+  return (
+    <Nav aria-label={t('label')}>
+      <ArrowButton
+        type="button"
+        onClick={prevPage}
+        disabled={currentPage === 1}
+        aria-label={t('previous')}
+      >
+        <RiArrowLeftSLine size={18} />
+      </ArrowButton>
+      <Counter role="status">
+        {t('count', { currentPage, totalPageCount })}
+      </Counter>
+      <ArrowButton
+        type="button"
+        onClick={nextPage}
+        disabled={currentPage === totalPageCount}
+        aria-label={t('next')}
+      >
+        <RiArrowRightSLine size={18} />
+      </ArrowButton>
+    </Nav>
+  )
+}
+
+const Nav = styled('nav', {
+  base: {
+    display: 'flex',
+    alignItems: 'center',
+    justifyContent: 'center',
+    gap: '0.25rem',
+    marginTop: '1rem',
+    flexShrink: 0,
+  },
+})
+
+const ArrowButton = styled('button', {
+  base: {
+    display: 'inline-flex',
+    alignItems: 'center',
+    justifyContent: 'center',
+    width: '1.75rem',
+    height: '1.75rem',
+    borderRadius: '4px',
+    border: 'none',
+    cursor: 'pointer',
+    color: 'white',
+    backgroundColor: 'primaryDark.100',
+    transition: 'opacity 0.15s, background-color 0.15s',
+    '&:hover:not(:disabled)': {
+      backgroundColor: 'primaryDark.75',
+    },
+    '&:focus-visible': {
+      outline: '2px solid',
+      outlineColor: 'white',
+      outlineOffset: '2px',
+    },
+    '&:disabled': {
+      opacity: 0.3,
+      cursor: 'default',
+    },
+  },
+})
+
+const Counter = styled('span', {
+  base: {
+    fontSize: '0.75rem',
+    color: 'white',
+    opacity: 0.8,
+    whiteSpace: 'nowrap',
+    padding: '0 0.25rem',
+    minWidth: '3rem',
+    textAlign: 'center',
+  },
+})

src/frontend/src/features/pip/components/layout/PipStage.tsx

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 import { useMemo } from 'react'
-import { useTracks } from '@livekit/components-react'
+import { usePagination, useTracks } from '@livekit/components-react'
 import { RoomEvent, Track } from 'livekit-client'
+import { styled } from '@/styled-system/jsx'
 import { PipFocusLayout } from './PipFocusLayout'
 import { PipGridLayout } from './PipGridLayout'
+import { PipPagination } from './PipPagination'
 import { StageFrame } from './StageFrame'
+import { MAX_PIP_TILES } from '../../utils/pipGrid'
 import {
   isTrackReference,
   TrackReferenceOrPlaceholder,
@@ -38,21 +41,38 @@ export const PipStage = () => {
     [tracks]
   )
 
+  // Grid mode order: screen share leads, then cameras (already ordered by
+  // active speaker via the `ActiveSpeakersChanged` update above).
+  const gridTracks = useMemo(
+    () =>
+      screenShareTrack ? [screenShareTrack, ...cameraTracks] : cameraTracks,
+    [screenShareTrack, cameraTracks]
+  )
+
+  // Cap the grid at MAX_PIP_TILES per page. `usePagination` keeps the visible
+  // page visually stable (active/recent speakers stay put) via its internal
+  // `useVisualStableUpdate`. Called unconditionally to respect hook rules.
+  const pagination = usePagination(MAX_PIP_TILES, gridTracks)
+
   if (tracks.length === 0) return null
 
   /**
    * The focus layout shows one main track with one thumbnail overlay,
    * so it can only fit 2 tracks. Beyond that we switch to the grid.
    */
-  if (tracks.length > 2) {
+  if (gridTracks.length > 2) {
-    // Grid mode: 3+ tracks. Screen share goes first so it leads the grid.
-    const gridTracks = screenShareTrack
-      ? [screenShareTrack, ...cameraTracks]
-      : cameraTracks
     return (
-      <StageFrame>
+      <StageWrapper>
-        <PipGridLayout tracks={gridTracks} />
+        <StageFrame>
-      </StageFrame>
+          <PipGridLayout tracks={pagination.tracks} />
+        </StageFrame>
+        <PipPagination
+          totalPageCount={pagination.totalPageCount}
+          currentPage={pagination.currentPage}
+          nextPage={pagination.nextPage}
+          prevPage={pagination.prevPage}
+        />
+      </StageWrapper>
     )
   }
 
@@ -75,3 +95,12 @@ export const PipStage = () => {
     </StageFrame>
   )
 }
+
+const StageWrapper = styled('div', {
+  base: {
+    display: 'flex',
+    flexDirection: 'column',
+    minWidth: 0,
+    minHeight: 0,
+  },
+})

src/frontend/src/features/pip/components/layout/StageFrame.tsx

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ export const StageFrame = ({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) => {
 const Container = styled('div', {
   base: {
     position: 'relative',
+    flex: 1,
     minWidth: 0,
     minHeight: 0,
     marginLeft: '0.5rem',

src/frontend/src/features/pip/utils/pipGrid.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+/**
+ * Maximum number of tiles rendered per PiP page. Beyond this the grid
+ * paginates so large meetings stay glanceable (active speaker priority)
+ * instead of subscribing to and rendering every camera in a small window.
+ */
+export const MAX_PIP_TILES = 5
+
 export type PipTilePlacement = {
   gridColumn: string
   gridRow: number