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# Ultrawidify — youtube aspect ratio fixer for firefox
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## What does it do?
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The technology has been here for a while, but plenty of people don't know how to properly encode a video (despite the fact [youtube has an article that explains aspect ratios](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6375112)). Plenty of people surprisingly includes major Holywood studios, such as [Marvel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke1Y3P9D0Bc), [Disney](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCOPJi0Urq4), [Dreamworks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKiYuIsPxYk), [Warner Brothers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYZ3U1inHA4), [Sony](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BWWWQzTpNU), et cetera. You'd think that's the one thing Holywood studios and people who make [music videos for a living](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY) would know how to do right, but they don't. This extension is here to fix that.
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### TL;DR: it does this:
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![Should these black bars be here? No [...] but an ultrawide user never forgets.](img-demo/example-httyd2.png)
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I'd demo with [Sintel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsGyueVLvQ) but they encoded the video without the black bars. Thanks, Blender Foundation.
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This extension also allows you to zoom in or out of video (similar to how SMPlayer does it).
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## Installing
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[Just install it from Mozilla's addon page](https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/ultrawidify/). I'm only showing the source here.
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## How do I use it?
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Here's the list of keybinds:
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* `w` : fit to width (will crop top and bottom if video is taller than the display)
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* `e` : fit to height (will crop left and right if video is wider than the display)
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* `z` : zoom
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* `u` : unzoom
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* `r` : reset to default
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## What works
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More or less everything. Works regardless of whether the video is in fullscreen or not. Works regardless if the youtube video you're watching is embedded on some other page.
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## What doesn't
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On a very rare occasion, `w` button won't work. So far this behaviour was seen in [two](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsGyueVLvQ) [videos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYsPEl-xOv0) out of countless I've tried. In cases like this, use `z` to zoom instead.
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## Plans for the future
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* Adding custom keybinds
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* Adding a proper settings page
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* Adding buttons for actions in youtube's player
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* Adding an option to force specific aspect ratio
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