How to watch a video on every workspace?

I was wondering if there was an application or something that would allow me to view a workspace in the corner of another workspace?

For example if I had a video playing on one workspace, I'd be able to view it in another workspace while working on something.

I know it's quite a strange idea, but I think that would be quite a cool addition.

I'm a programmer but I've never made anything for Ubuntu so I'm not quite sure how to code something like this, so any ideas or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Solution 1:

Why don't you just resize the player, rightclick on the window-bar and select "stay/keep on top". If you're using totem you could also Ctrl-H to remove the interface, so that only the video and the borders are visible.

Before "backporting" from 12.10 to 12.04 I used to watch youtube with totem this way while doing other stuff.