Reviews for Ultrawidify
Ultrawidify од Tamius Han
108 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5од Firefox user 15315207, пред 5 години
- Rated 5 out of 5од SOTVM, пред 5 години
- Rated 5 out of 5од Firefox user 15067940, пред 5 годиниThis is the best smart ultrawide extension you can get. Most other either you have to keep toggle on and off depends on the content aspect ratio. This one is automatically detect the content and fit the content to your screen ratio. WOW
- Rated 4 out of 5од Firefox user 14885842, пред 5 години
- Rated 5 out of 5од Cairos, пред 5 години
- Rated 5 out of 5од Russcore, пред 5 години
- Rated 5 out of 5од Firefox user 14688249, пред 5 години
- Rated 5 out of 5од Firefox user 14548167, пред 5 години
- Rated 5 out of 5од Firefox user 14496309, пред 5 годиниit do not streaching the image automaticaly on youtube??, so you have to click evrey time on video stetting/ streaching/ basic??, when u run another videoclip you have to click again to work. Can u add the function to automaticaly streach image?? (on function ''site checking youtube'' i have ticked streach based but this fuction doest work but is doesnt work cause i have to click evrey time on video stetting/ streaching/ basic)
- Rated 5 out of 5од ramsalemix, пред 6 годиниGreat extension for Ultrawide(21:9) users.
The only problem I have is with the stretching mode
Even if I set in Extention Settings
Enable this extention: Always
Default stretching mode: Basic
I even set in Site Settings
Default stretching mode: Basic
I am watching full screen video in youtube and its not stretched so I need to exit full screen click Ultrawidify video settings and click on basic and only then enter full screen again and it stretched, so even though its experimental it works but exhausting since its not automatic and there is no keyboard shortcuts for stretch mode. - Rated 5 out of 5од Carpenter, пред 6 годиниA must have extension for 21:9 users, it's not perfect, but better than anything else.
- Rated 5 out of 5од Abstruse, пред 6 години
- Rated 5 out of 5од Heinz, пред 6 годиниI tested a couple of ultrawide video extensions on the Firefox Add-ons site, and this one is clearly superior.
One feature I miss is an on/off toggle (by keypress), or an option to rebind the shortcut keys.Одговор на развивачот
posted пред 6 годиниThe option to rebind the keyboard shortcuts is definitely one of the things that I'm planning to add at some point, the problem is that something more pressing always comes in the way.
On/off toggle is a good idea, actually, but I'll have to think about it. (toggling and three states don't always mix too well). - Rated 5 out of 5од hoidraar, пред 6 годиниDoes its job. Minor complaint: upscaling artifacts are quite noticeable, maybe give an option to play with various blur options?
- Rated 1 out of 5од Firefox user 14018284, пред 6 години
- Rated 5 out of 5од Firefox user 14026071, пред 6 години
- Rated 5 out of 5од Firefox user 13936564, пред 6 годиниThis extension works to solve the ultrawide issues I have on my computer.
- Rated 5 out of 5од Firefox user 14087255, пред 6 годиниfantastic support for ultra wide problems. thank you
- Rated 4 out of 5од Firefox user 14066509, пред 6 годиниOkay really good extenstion that works well but I have 2 suggestions:
1. Change the default keybinds from the single to a ctrl+alt+. This is necessary to avoid unwanted aspect ratio changes while typing in streams chat.
2. Add more popular aspect ratios like 2.37:1 that most ultrawide monitor (and films) use. Most are imporperly called 21:9 but in reality is not 21:9. Even better give us the chance to add custom aspect ratios.Одговор на развивачот
posted пред 6 години1. The extension actually shouldn't apply aspect ratio when you're typing in a text field in the first place. That seems to be a bug. Nice to know.
2. 21:9 option already uses 2.35:1 (might even be 2:39:1) internally (since most 21:9 videos use that ratio). Custom aspect ratios are on the menu (popular request), but they are not the biggest priority -- the next features to hit would be stretching, zooming (maybe) and improvements to autodetection (which often stops working when watching two videos back-to-back). - Rated 5 out of 5од Eldrazu, пред 6 годиниIt works! If you need to customize it, though, you're gonna have a hard time.
- Rated 1 out of 5од Firefox user 14008913, пред 6 годиниBarely working plugin.
1) Auto detection is fully broken, takes a lot of ressources doing nothing. Constantly switches itself off. After reloading website on Youtube works for some minutes and adjusts (sometimes not correctly) content with huge delay (>10seconds at least). But as content inside same video switches proportions (specially trailer tend to show scenes in 21:9 with blackbar but the general cinema announcment in 16:9) plugin doesnt notice anything and remains idle.
If the plugin managed to recognize video you can at least enforce resizing with shortcuts. But too often the plugin failed to recognize any content and you have to reload the page, as nothing else will help you.
2) No real website profiling. Sad. Some presets would be nice.
3) If the site has more than one video (e.g. Steam Store) the plugin fails to recognize any second, third, further video and is not able to stretch these.
It's a shame. A simple edge/blackborder detection would have done the job easily. At least general ultrawide support and awareness is raising.Одговор на развивачот
posted пред 6 години> A simple edge/blackborder detection would have done the job easily.
There's no such thing as "simple edge/blackborder detection." I've started the entire autodetection approach with a "simple" approach first, and it quickly became obvious that simple doesn't cut it. There's simply too much false positives. But we'll come back to auto-detection later.
> After reloading website on Youtube works for some minutes and adjusts (sometimes not correctly) content with huge delay (>10seconds at least).
Technical limitations. Youtube starts playing video before the page has finished loading. Extensions (to my knowledge) only start running when webpage has been fully loaded.
In addition to that, there's two more problems that can cause additional delays:
* there's edge cases which cause autodetection script to do nothing, because video doesn't contain enough data to determine the aspect ratio
* aspect ratio detection only runs once per second due to technical limitations of Javascript's memory management. I'm not kidding.
> But too often the plugin failed to recognize any content
Too often, the popup seems to lie.
> Auto detection is fully broken, takes a lot of ressources doing nothing. Constantly switches itself off.
Autodetection takes a lot of resources because it's written in javascript. Autodetection is written with javascript because javascript is the only¹ option that runs in-browser. Javascript is also utter garbage for this purpose.
To date, ridiculously great amounts of time were spent trying to improve resource usage (especially RAM usage, which gets really bad if you run autodetection script more than two times a second), and the answer has consistently been 'pound sand' and 'cry is free'.
EDIT: Apparently the bug where autodetection shuts itself on between videos is back. However, there's a new feature that turns off automatic detection when it detects things are taking too much time, so I'll leave this bit here.
When automatic detection runs on slower hardware, everything takes longer. Javascript is single-threaded and blocking, meaning that as long as autodetection script runs, the rest of the browser is going to wait and do nothing. This causes noticeable lag/stutter (on my other test machine), which is why a decision was made: if autodetection consistently takes too long to complete, we'll turn it off. After all, having no autodetection (with ability to manually set aspect ratio) beats laggy video.
Too long is 15 milliseconds, which seems like a reasonable number for various reasons.
Consistently means 'over 15 milliseconds for more than 5 seconds in a row.'
> 3) If the site has more than one video (e.g. Steam Store) the plugin fails to recognize any second, third, further video and is not able to stretch these.
Known issue. There's no easy solution as each approach to pages with multiple videos has some drawbacks. At the end of the day, though, things take time, and priorities are Youtube > Netflix > Amazon Prime (currently not officually supported) > everything else (also no official support), though.
There's a reason extension is disabled elsewhere by default. We've had that experiment once and it was a bit too ambitious.
EDIT: whoopsie, it seems that the bug with autodetection not starting on video change is back. Sorry about those earlier assumptions.
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¹Okay webasm is an unexplored venue. It's going to stay unexplored for a while. WebGL is another thing that sounds like something possibility worth exploring if I had time to explore the possibilites. Both would be a ton of work requiring a ton of time, and time is something that's a bit hard to come by with a full time job. - Rated 1 out of 5од Firefox user 13885103, пред 6 годиниDoesn’t work anymore. The aspect-ratio buttons are gone and the automatic aspect-ratio works perfectly wrong every time, so it’s useless.
Одговор на развивачот
posted пред 6 години> the automatic aspect-ratio works perfectly wrong every time, so it’s useless.
Untick this: https://imgur.com/iN1orfZ
Also go here: -> https://github.com/xternal7/ultrawidify/issues
and add a few links (with timestamps, preferably) to the problematic videos. Optionally also include screenshots that illustrate the issue.
> The aspect-ratio buttons are gone
Moved to here, actually: https://imgur.com/Irfd05Q - and keyboard shortcuts should still work. - Rated 3 out of 5од Firefox user 13828963, пред 6 годиниI really like this extension when watching mixed aspect-ratio videos, the extension quickly catches the black bars and shrinks or stretches the video automatically to the correct ratio.
Sadly I had to uninstall the extension, as it breaks video players on several sites including reddit. The blacklist option doesn't work to resolve this issue. Would love to install again someday when this is fixed.Одговор на развивачот
posted пред 6 годиниThe issue with reddit and other sites should be fixed. It's not a proper fix, I've just set extension to not work on any site other than youtube or netflix and sites that you explicitly enabled via the extension button/popup.
I've also kinda solved the problem with the memory leak: extension will only check for changes in aspect ratio once per second if the video is playing. This massively reduces RAM usage back to acceptable/negligible levels.
On that note: I've also added an option for you to change how often the extension checks for changes in aspect ratio, but turning that number back to 30 (what it used to be) is not recommended because RAM usage will skyrocket for technical reasons (tl;dr of which is pretty much "blame javascript").