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This wiki is there to provide somewhat detailed description of the features this extension offers, as well as how to use them.
The technology has been here for a while, but plenty of people don't know how to properly encode a video (despite the fact youtube has an article that explains aspect ratios). Plenty of people surprisingly includes major Holywood studios, such as Marvel, Disney, Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, Sony, et cetera. You'd think that this is the one thing Holywood studios and people who make music videos for a living would know how to do right, but they don't. This extension is here to fix that.
See this article for detailed explanation. The TL;DR version:
- Access/modify data for all pages — you need that to analyse the video
- Access browser tabs — needed to control extension from popup. Needed to actually fix the video aspect ratio.
- Access browser activity during navigation — you need that to pause autodetection when switching to a different tab.
- The rest is optional.
Extension is being tested in Firefox and Chrome and is officially published in their respective addon stores.
However, you should be able to use it in any Chromium-based browser that allows installing extensions from Chrome Web Store (e.g. Opera and new Chromium-based Edge).
- Non-chromium-based Edge.
That browser is going away soon anyway and I'm not paying €15 for the privilege of publishing my extension for a browser that's completely broken anyway. If you gotta use Edge for 4K netflix, use Chromium-based version of Edge instead and install Ultrawidify from the Chrome store.
Helpful links:
Installing Chromium-based Edge
How to install Chrome extensions in Chromium Edge
Enabling support for HD/4K Netflix streams in Chromium Edge
Extension is generally tested for these sites:
- Youtube
- Netflix
These sites may end up getting bumped into 'official' category. However, not much testing has been done for them.
- vimeo
- twitch
- streamable
- reddit (sorta)
Sites that were submitted by community.
None so far.
Extension will also run on just about any other site that contains HTML5 videos. However, it's not guaranteed that extension will work on these sites.
By default, extension will not run on the following sites:
- Gfycat
- Imgur
- Open an issue
- Extension popup provides two additional ways to contact me
- While it's fine to mention your issues in your store review, AMO/Chrome Web Store/et. al. are not places for bug reports. If you're actually interested in seeing a fix, consider contacting me as well.
In true programmer spirit, this wiki (and documentation in general) is a bit neglected and may not reflect the current status of the extension.
If you spot inaccuracies or outdated information, please consider opening an issue (or just mail me. Contact info is in extension popup).