Lucid 0.3.0

First packaged build.

Lucid enhances low-bitrate browser video in place, inside the page's own video box. Verified on YouTube and Vimeo.

Requires Apple silicon and macOS 26.

Installing

1. Open the disk image and drag Lucid to Applications.
2. This build is not notarised, so macOS will refuse to open it on first try. Clear the quarantine flag once:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Lucid.app
   

   A notarised build needs a paid Apple Developer Program membership; until then this step is unavoidable.
3. Open Lucid and grant Screen Recording. It needs that to place the enhanced picture over the video, and records nothing.
4. Load the browser companion: chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked → the BrowserExtension folder from a checkout of this repository.

Lucid lives in the menu bar and the Dock menu: an on/off switch and four quality settings.

Known limits

• DRM video (Netflix and similar) is impossible — the frames are never available to the page.
• One video at a time, top frame only. No iframes or picture-in-picture.
• The loopback bridge is not authenticated; any local process can connect to it.
• Performance has only been measured on an M4 Pro.