<video> Player buttons to be added</video>

[ImprovedTube]

• We can integrate / combine so many more features that we made already or that are avaiable free (no restrictions by copyright: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?sort=total_installs#:~:text=HTML5%20Video & [collab/coop?] Dear fellow developers of parallel projects (youtube.com, <video> . . .) #1881)
  • a better UI can be more efficient work than new features, as long as features are developed in the world, which don't make it to be knowm by many peoplem who should know them and would love to.

List of missing player buttons (Global and/or YouTube)

• Popout window player (removing the URL bar made it flash - not sure we can do it differently)
• PiP (Picture in picture)
• fit to window button features exist request: #556 solution: #1798 (yet our "fit to window" needs an update/rewrite. Until then it is only a 100% height button and the icon is misleading)
• Screenshot (usecase: memories / publishing)
  • .gif maker ( just how to develope? series of frames?)
• repeat
  • should be a 4- or 3-way toggle: (off | infinite or 5 times or custom duration or amount | only 1 time )
  • Right-click can result in adding a lock to the icon too, locking it (=always on, always the currently selected option) (and that code can be repurposed for more buttons sticky repeat button & sticky anything? #1491)
  • Refine our Repeat/Loop-feature ( Include popout player & Exclude ads?) #1504
• [Looper/Clip-selector] integrate our other extension?: todo looper#2
  • remember loop per video
  • multi-range slider (to select multiple key scenes / parts and share as a link)
    • key scene selection can also be semi automated Youtube's Timeline Heatmap (Histogram) enables/improves a lot... #1463 (or fully automated in a context of speed-watching)
• Skip to next key scene data-source: #1463
• speed & [next/last] frame integrate our other extension?: https://github.com/code-for-charity/frame-by-frame
  • UI Plan below
  • Smart-Speed-Watching ( should later be content/context aware with some set&forget capability (Smarter Speed-up #1636) , or specifically:
• Skip to next word (based on transcript or auto-transcript)
  • skip (up to) all silent parts of the current video' ( Skip silence #921 )
    • ...
• Volume Boost: Adding a little red area to youtube's slider. 1)Plan 2)better global addon 3)combine with normalization#comment ( max. gain#comment ) ; ... ; soundfixer (free code!)
  - [ ] (And/or just a toggle on/off features exist )
• 'Play all' (=stay on current channel or playlist #1166 Not a player feature, just a playlist feature / This button/icon can appear near every channel name ADD "Play All" Videos button to Search Results #1280 (features exist)
• transpose. Compare: transpose pitch speed loop
• Mirror (for dancing along or play alone guitar, drums,.... & some other thus other HowTo's/DIY/Cooking (exists)
  • remember per video or per selection, if a loop is or will be set too for this video. (compare: mirrortube )
• "Readability": increase contrast + decrease saturation proportionally?
• download ( our unblob? )
• play in vlc (exists!);
• (chromeCast with custom APP?) Add chromecast support (Cast to TV) #1860; (and/or moved away behind ⋮ hamburg menu ? Discovery (and production) of small (~rare) but global features. #2037)
• Preload whole. Or pause preloading(exist/ed):https://smarter.yt), ... , ..?;
• Bandwidth? : Audio-only or 144p (features exist) We can integrate the method and icon of https://github.com/Ashish-Bansal/audio-only-youtube (asked him here: Bandwidth // Audio only  #566 (comment) )
• Rotate (who uses this tho actually?)

content-based buttons (youtube only) :

• not only button, but a universal (little) <Input> at once - for Search in Captions & Comments at once should appear in line with important buttons https://github.com/sonigy/YCS.

  • skip video to first matching line; open transcript; show comments filtered&marked up.
    - ( 2. Typing 'some words at start ... end can define a section/chapter/refrain/verse, if "..." becomes a .*? regex applied on the transcript of the video. So this can also defined a &start= &end= time mark for bookmarking or sharing) - and that section could then play in a loop and be seen in the looper element's icon...)

• Filtering 'too popular' stuff: Strategic blocking based on category, popularity & monoculture #1451
  (Many people want to "set & forget", but this should be accompanied by a a dynamic button. (It could be an slider on mouse-over (like volume. Ranging from 0-100), and indicate the value calculated for the current video/channel)

Player buttons Layout

• These Buttons can be enabled in one row by default, like Youtube Enhancer has by now too, but with decreasing size&opacity by relevance. They can also appear at all edges on mouse over and intentional mouse direction (not random)
  ( Without overlapping the video, buttons could stay permanently, but still can be a filtered / contextual selection / transparency. And optional only appear on mouse over (along with youtube's controls) )

Rationale

While usally temporary (one-time-use) on left click,
on right-click, every button could also allow to build specific sticky-rules! ( 'always for this channel' / ...category ...'keyword/tag:....' (added to a list 'my rules' - Such ideas will arise while experiencing content - not while staring at our menus) (abstract for non-developers)

• (in turn each button can later indicate auto-active state through such rule with a slightly pink frame/glow or so, to possibly remind of it incase a forgotten rule needs an refinemen/exception. Right click: 'exclude this video/channel/category [from my skipping rules(whitelist)]'

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"I'd like that (popout button enabled by default). Otherwise as a new user (first install two days ago) I found it hard to know what the extension could do." (#860 (comment)) )

[ImprovedTube]

compact button-layout for both speed & frame-by-frame:

<- (1.0) ->

A little input, with two buttons left & right ('slower' & 'faster'. But 'previous frame' & 'next frame' when paused)

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• the Input should remember the value at last usage, but only activate it for another video when clicking the input again
  • so this one element is enough for most of all manual uses of speed. Some people also wish for mulitple speeds, but then it could be automated by rules rather categories music 1x, news 1.5x, lengthy-walkthroughs 2x.)

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• alternatively the element can also support scrolling at mouse-over )

• and this input could also be draggable (like a joystick or an "invisible slider", so that the number in the input will change when dragging it. (while a permanent slider would need more space and have more accidental clicks)

  • (and to avoid accidental dragging abort when dragged diagonally rather than horizontally or vertically)
    • this will also allow to speed up temporarily before aborting by changing the mouse direction (like a DJ turntable)
      • (edit 2024: btw youtube added: click&hold for speed.)