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Enable automatic aspect ratio detection
This option uses 3rd party websites to determine aspect ratio. It may not work all the time or even properly. It only works with Netflix. This option is NOT available on Youtube. Also deprecated probably, tamius pls remove
Enable brute-force automatic aspect ratio detection
Pretend that this checkbox is checked and that you can't uncheck it.

This option works by checking where black pixels end on _every_ frame (technically every ~30ms). Because of this, this option may cause lagginess and increased CPU usage. also you can't not use it because we're doing a total rewrite lol
Yes, the UI is gone. [..] but why is the UI gone?

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS COMPLETELY NON-FUNCTIONAL ATM. YOU CANT SET SITE-SPECIFIC OPTIONS ATM

Keyboard shortcuts

Autodetect aspect ratio
Ctrl + Shift + Alt +
Fit to width
Ctrl + Shift + Alt +
Fit to height
Ctrl + Shift + Alt +
Reset
Ctrl + Shift + Alt +
Force 21:9
Ctrl + Shift + Alt +
Force 2:1 (18:9)
Ctrl + Shift + Alt +
Force 16:9
Ctrl + Shift + Alt +
Cancel
Save
Note: keyboard shortcut conflicts aren't handled by this extension. You must know your shortcuts.
Pro tip: If you don't want to have a keybind for a shortcut, just uncheck all boxes for the action and remove the letter

Ultrawidify - an aspect ratio fixer for youtube (and netflix)

Created by Tamius Han (me). If something is broken, you can shout at me on github (shout nicely, though. Open an issue or bug report or something). If you're curious to see the source code, github's here. If you're looking at this page because you're bored and want to be bored some more, my website's here.

So you want to help?

There's a lot of sites where you can stream videos. A lot of these sites keep failing to handle aspect ratios correctly, which means it would be great if this extension worked elsewhere. Unfortunately, a lot of these sites require me to pony up some money (ayy lmao) OR just flat out block anyone who's not from the US (or their small selection of approved regions). Some sites even do both.

This means I'd need some help. There's two ways. One of them is to use 'inspect element' option of your browser to pick up IDs (or classnames) of certain elements. More detail here(TODO: add a link to quick tutorial).probably wont be necessary

The second one is, well. I won't shy away from donations either. Bonus respect for dank amounts!

Needless to say, I'll be happy and thankful regardless of the way you contribute.

Plans for the future

Support for more sizes. More flexible/customizable UI. Maybe (but absolutely no promises here) a bit more advanced autodetection.

this is the future lol. (at least as far as autodetection goes, keybinds need to make a comeback)

Acknowledgements

This extension uses font Oxygen.

Special thanks to CD Project Red (The Witcher 2), Cyanide Studios (Styx, Of Orcs and Men), and Valve (CS:GO), which made it possible for me to untrigger myself after seeing so many improperly encoded videos.

More or less.

Special one-finger salute to all incompetent people who don't know how to properly encode videos and upload them to youtube (to word it most nicely).

Special thanks to me for making this extension. You're welcome.