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Immerse yourself in YouTube™ videos with ambient light!

This extension will surround YouTube™ videos with ambient light inside your browser. No need for extra hardware like lightstrips or smart lights like ambilight, it's all in your browser!


Tip:

Are you using a widescreen or portrait monitor? Enable both the "Remove black bars" and "Fill video to screen" features to automatically fill your monitor with any video that has black bars.


Features:

1. Ambient light
- Blur
- Spread
- Fade in duration

2. Remove black & colored bars
- Remove bars
- Remove sidebars
- Also remove colored bars
- Fill video to screen

3. Filters
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Vibrance
- Saturation

4. Video
- Size (scale/zoom)
- Shadow

5. Video page content
- Shadows on elements
- Buttons, boxes and images opacity
- Hide elements in theater mode
- Translucent header

6. Quality
- Limit framerate (per second)
- Resolution

7. General
- Appearance (theme): Light, Default, Dark
- Enable only in view mode(s): small, theater, fullscreen
- Enable in Picture-in-picture mode
- Enabled/Disabled


Advanced features:
1. Ambient light
- Edge size
- Fade out start
- Fade out curve
- Debanding (noise/dithering)
- Flicker reduction
- Smooth motion (Frame blending)

2. Directions
- Top, right, bottom, left

3. Remove black & colored bars
- Bar detection offset
- Bar detection average
- Bar size (manual control)
- Sidebar size (manual control)
- Reset bars next video

4. Video
- Sync video with ambient light
- Debanding (noise/dithering)

5. Video page content
- Hide scrollbar

6. Quality
- Synchronization: Display framerate, Video framerate
- WebGL renderer (Uses less power)
- Save energy on static videos

7. Stats
- Framerate stats
- Frametime stats
- Resolution and drawtime stats


Requirement:

A video card with a score of at least 1000 points in the PassMark G3D Mark benchmark is recommended.
Check your video card's score here: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
With a score lower than 1000 the extension will still work but it is likely that the YouTube video page will be slow and/or stuttering.


Contribute:

You can view the source code and contribute to this open source project at https://github.com/WesselKroos/youtube-ambilight

Tags: youtube