In order for autodetection to work, the extension grabs a frame of the video you're watching and takes a look at it. Some websites use DRM, which prevents you from using the HTML5-blessed way of getting a frame from a video. Some browsers offer some features that can be used to circumvent DRM protection. With this option enabled, the extension will use said features to basically do that.
Technical details: tl;dr — only works in Firefox and maybe its forks.
Fallback mode depends on two things:
But I thought it's illegal to circumvent DRM?
Courts disagree (at least as far as our use-case is concerned).
At this point I'd also throw in some choice words about DRM and everyone using it, but AMO gives me "you're breaking terms of conduct" warnings over use of the word for thing you flush down the toilet, prepended by a word for male cow*, in the code comments.
*'cow' is term for the female
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.
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.
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)
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.