Ultrawide full window zooms in videos instead of black bars

[ToiletUncle]

Most YT videos are 16:9 so when resized to full window in my 21:9 ultrawide screen there should be black bars at the sides, keeping the aspect ratio. Something broke recently, now resized videos fill up the width of 16:9 videos to my 21:9 screen, black bars gone, causing videos to be zoomed in.

[Zren]

Can't seem to reproduce on Firefox in Linux. I'll try Chrome in Linux next.

Can you reproduce the bug when logged out in Incognito/Private mode in your browser? It might be an A/B test by YouTube.

[ToiletUncle]

After PC restart the problem seemed to be resolved on its own, hence I cannot reproduce the bug now. Both normal mode/incognito mode works fine as of now.

[ToiletUncle]

The problem started again in chrome, even in incognito. Nothing I can be done on my end to resolve this issue.

[ohohohoo]

I'd like to chime in. I never had issue like this until today. Maybe Youtube made changes that's being deployed gradually? I'm not sure.

This is what it look like https://i.imgur.com/Yjlym5k.jpeg but basically any videos will be played zoomed like that without the black bar on the side like it used to be before. Restarting as mentioned above has no effect and the only way to see the video normally is by disabling the userscript.

[hoover900]

Having the same issue with Firefox on mac OS

[riccardosimo]

Same hereeee :(
It'd be wonderful if you can remove the black bars in the videos (but fix the zoom problem) 😃

[marcelbrode]

Having the Problem on Chrome on Win 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 as well

[Zren]

Yeah I can test it now too. Looks like the new YouTube CSS has:

.ytp-fit-cover-video .html5-main-video {
  object-fit: cover;
}

Which crops the video. We want

.ytp-fit-cover-video .html5-main-video {
  object-fit: contain;
}

[Zren]

v130 should fix the cropping (and the non-autoplay splash thumbnail).

[riccardosimo]

v130 should fix the cropping (and the non-autoplay splash thumbnail).

Yeeee it works again :D btw I was wondering if it's possible to remove the black bars in the videos 🤔

[Zren]

possible to remove the black bars in [around] the videos

While it would be possible to query the video height. I'd basically need to test 3:2, 16:9, 21:9 videos (and 9:16, 9:21 for vertical phone videos) every time YouTube breaks. Not really interested in a feature that shows like 200px of the YT top nav and maybe the video title.

Just use YT's default theater mode if you don't want to use the full window height.

Or set playerHeight = '100vh'; to playerHeight = '90vh'; or something.