Need to remove unnecessary black bars from this youtube video you’re watching? Ultrawidify is here for you.
🌟🌟🌟 MAIN FEATURES 🌟🌟🌟
⚠️ Features automatic aspect ratio detection (support may vary from site to site)
✅ Supports primarily youtube, vimeo, twitch, netflix, but will try to work on any website
↔️ Supports both cropping and stretching
✅ Works with youtube theater mode
❓ How do I use it?
If the site does not utilize DRM, you can just sit back and let autodetection handle everything for you. On sites that use DRM — or on videos where autodetection proves unreliable — you can either use the extension popup or the keyboard shortcuts (note that extension shortcuts do not override site’s default shortcuts) to set the aspect ratio manually.
💬 Features in detail 💬
1️⃣ Automatic aspect ratio detection
This feature ensures that video will be cropped without you having to lift a finger. It runs continuously and will even detect aspect ratio changes that happen in the middle of the video.
While autodetection should work fine on most of the videos, it is not 100% accurate and has some limitations:
◾ The extension may struggle with dark frames (especially the ones that contain text)
◾ Autodetection may cause high CPU usage (especially on older CPUs)
◾ It may not be able to keep up with rapid aspect ratio changes
◾ It cannot work on sites that utilize DRM protection schemes (e.g. Netflix, Disney+) — you will have to adjust aspect ratio manually on those.
Certain aspect ratio detection parameters can be tweaked in the extension settings. You can increase (or decrease) the frequency of aspect ratio checking. It is also possible to increase the level of certainty that’s required for extension to change the crop.
2️⃣ Manual aspect ratio correction
For sites that do not support automatic aspect ratio detection, Ultrawidify allows you to manually crop the video. The extension allows you to crop to these aspect ratios by default:
→ Fit Width (shortcut: W)
→ Fit Height (shortcut: E)
→ 21:9 (shortcut: D)
→ 18:9 (or 2:1; shortcut: X)
→ 16:9 (shortcut: S)
You can also reset the aspect ratio back to the initial aspect ratio (shortcut: R).
Note that some sites may define keyboard shortcuts that interfere with the shortcuts defined by this extension. In such cases, the shortcuts defined by this extension may not work.
3️⃣ Stretch the video
You paid for the entire monitor, so you’re gonna use all the monitor — even if it means stretching the video into complete garbage? Ultrawidify’s got you covered with a bunch of different options:
→ Don’t: for men of culture
→ Basic: for people who just don’t care, at all. (This option does not remove the black bars)
→ Hybrid: crops the video first and then stretches the video to fill the remaining space
→Thin borders — only stretch the video if the black borders are _really_ thin
→ 4:3 (src) — not all people are men of culture. Some people torture others by posting 4:3 content stretched to 16:9. This option makes the video 4:3 again.
→ 16:9 (src) — ensures that the video is stretched (or squeezed) to 16:9.
4️⃣ ALIGN VIDEO TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN CENTER
There’s a few people who aren’t bothered by the vertical bars you get when watching 16:9 content on a 21:9 monitor. However, they would much prefer if instead of having two thinner black bars on either side of the video, they’d have just one bigger black bar on one side.
That way, they can watch their 16:9 video on full screen while also having a bigger space to put their League of Legends chat¹ in while waiting for their match to start.
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¹or something like that.IDK I’m more of a CSGO guy, so I’ll take the guy who asked for this at face value.
5️⃣ MANUAL OVERRIDE FOR PLAYER DETECTION
Ultrawidify not working on a site? It’s possibe that Ultrawidify can detect the video, but not the video player. If that happens, you can head over to ‘Advanced settings’ tab in the popup and specify the player element. You can do that by specifying the player node index (gradually increase the number from 1 to ~10) or — if you know how HTML and CSS work — providing the query selector.
Sometimes, Ultrawidify won’t work because of the quirks in site’s CSS. If you know how to fix that kind of issues, ‘advanced settings’ section of the popup allows you to do so.
Remember: sharing is caring. If you manage to fix a website using these tools, consider sharing the solution via email or github.
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: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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1. WHY DOESN’T AUTODETECTION WORK ON ?
Because the site utilizes DRM/anti-piracy measures, which prevent autodetection from working.
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2. WHY DOESN’T AUTODETECTION DETECT ASPECT RATIO CHANGES INSTANTANEOUSLY?
Due to performance reasons, Ultrawidify only checks for aspect ratio changes about three times per second. That means that aspect ratio detection may “lag” by about 300 milliseconds.
While the frequency of aspect ratio checks can be increased, Ultrawidify can only check the currently displayed frame. As such, it will always lag by at least one frame.
Note that increasing the frequency of aspect ratio checks may result in Chrome becoming laggy and, in extreme cases, even memory leaks as browser’s garbage collection is unable to keep up with the scripts.
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3. AUTODETECTION HAS [INSERT A PROBLEM WITH MOVIE CREDITS OR BAKED-IN SUBTITLES]
Aspect ratio detection requires a little bit of math to be done. Because doing too much maths can result in your browser not responding properly or even crashing, autodetection must find a compromise between accuracy and doing as little math as possible in order to establish the aspect ratio.
Issues with text are result of these tradeoffs. If it bothers you that much, you can disable autodetection (either temporarily, by manually setting aspect ratio, or forever).
If you know what you’re doing, you can go to extension option and tweak aspect ratio detection parameters.
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4. CAN I ADD A CUSTOM ASPECT RATIO/CUSTOM KEYBOARD SHORTCUT?
Yes, but it requires some effort as the UI is currently mildly to majorly broken.
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5. THE EXTENSION BROKE A SITE / DOESN’T WORK FOR A GIVEN SITE
You can submit a bug report via email or github. Please include all the details the email/issue template asks for.
If the site requires a subscription or is geo-locked, you can also save the page with “Save Page WE” extension and attach the file to the email (if submitting a github issue, you need to put the html file in a zip archive). This will make my life a bit easier.
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6. IS MICROSOFT EDGE THE SAME THING AS GOOGLE CHROME?
No. Yes, Edge is chromium-based just like Chrome, but that doesn’t mean they’re the same thing. In the past, we’ve had plenty of issues where this extension worked plenty well on Chrome, but not in Edge because Edge had some bugs that Chrome didn’t.
Here’s some of that stuff that has since been solved: https://github.com/tamius-han/ultrawidify/issues/117
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7. IS OPERA THE SAME THING AS GOOGLE CHROME?
No.
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Github’s here: https://github.com/xternal7/ultrawidify
Full list of features (WIP): https://github.com/xternal7/ultrawidify/wiki
Most of the videos on the Internet using this application began to move to the right side of the screen. This cannot be changed in any way in the application settings.
Works great!
Non funziona proprio, non serve a nulla!
Why do people rate this extension 1/2 stars???
It works like a charm!
I don’t know why I didn’t search for this earlier.
I love this extension works well on all of the sites I use except Disney+ I really do hope the maker fixes Disney+ and then this will be a five star review.
I just wanted to note the odd use I have for this extension, I don’t use an ultrawide monitor, in fact quite the opposite. I use a Raspberry Pi to run current streaming content over composite video to an old CRT television I have. Not every service will display their old content in actual 4:3 often adding bars to the sides and forcing viewers to watch in 16:9, thanks to Ultrawidify I can watch the more difficult services like Disney+, HBO Max, and WWE Network in 4:3 for native 4:3 broadcasts.
This program has sated my desire for nostalgia mixed with modern technology, without Ultrawidify I would have been much more limited. Massive thanks to the developer.
it took me a while to find this, just the W key and the magic happens, great extension
This is the only reliable tool for removing burnt in black bars when viewing “fake” 21:9 content on a 21:9 screen on streaming services.
замена данному шлаку – “Zoom to Fill – Ultrawide Video” https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zoom-to-fill-ultrawide-vi/adpjimagbfpknkodpofjphpbdlfkeiho/related?hl=ru
отлично работает, весит 11кб, против 1,5мб у этого расширения.
Yay! A fix to watch Amazon Videos fullscreen on my ultrawide monitor.
What happened to crop and 21:9 option? It stopped working properly after last chrome update – please do something about it
не работает эта дрянь
Finally! I can’t tell you how many videos I’ve watched on YouTube where the video isn’t “full screen” — it’s a 16:9 aspect ratio, but it surrounds my monitor in a black box because it was uploaded as a letterboxed 4:3. This extension is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!
It is currently broken, setting it to 21:9 while in fullscreen only stretches the YouTube video horizontally. This is also happening with other extensions, “Zoom to Fill – Ultrawide Video” and “Aspect Ratio 21:9”. Maybe YouTube is the culprit here?
edit 26/1/21: Was able to determine something was wrong with my machine. Disabled hardware acceleration in chrome. Works perfectly but I am dropping frames on YouTube. Another problem to solve!
This just doesn’t even work. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled many times, but it doesn’t do anything.
So many options but none works on a 3440×1440 monitor on YouTube so it’s pointless. Ultrawide video was working perfectly (CTRL+ALT+C shortcut, very simple) but was removed, I’m trying to find another one which works but for now, none of them are…
Extremely horrible, unfriendly user interface, will break your video playback and cause audio issues. Hope improvements will make this even remotely usable because this does address a big problem with automatic aspect ratio adjustment.
어떻게 활성화하는지 아직도 의문이지만. 어쩌다 보니 작동이 되기 시작했고. 그 뒤로는 막힘 없이 된다.
don’t work
Works flawlessly on all sites, but Disney+… It even works on streaming sites and adjusts automatically for when it detects that there are black bars. If it could work on Disney+ too that woulf be great. I currently have to force 21:9 on Disney+ with this other extention(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disney-plus-ultrawide-ful/pdnmlnhalemfcehgdnfkpehgoniobnph) and blacklist disney+ with this extention. (btw the fact that this extention can blasklist sistes is amazing)
Amazing and exactly what i needed. Scales Netflix, Stan, Disney+ etc.. You lose next to nothing scaling 16:9 to 21:9 but the experience of ultrawide is absolutely the future. Can’t go back, won’t go back. Well done dev!
I’m only giving this a 4 star review because it essentially is a monopoly on this feature. However, keep in mind that it’s incredibly janky. Disney+ works, but it screws up the UI. Netflix works, but I have to screw around with the ratios using the keyboard shortcuts every time I open something, even if it’s something that isn’t 21:9 and I want to keep in its original aspect ratio. Netflix also forces non-21:9 content to the left of the screen. I can’t even disable it on Netflix for whatever reason. Speaking of keyboard shortcuts, I wanted to set a shortcut for centering videos for this issue (because why would I want it aligned with the left or right?), but I wasn’t able to get the options menu to allow me to save it. I filled in the box, clicked save, but it just didn’t take despite trying several times. Anyway, Amazon just flat out doesn’t work. Crunchyroll works, but if it’s not 21:9, it’s forced to the right side of the screen which is a nuisance. The only website that works without a hitch is YouTube.
So, if you just watch nothing but YouTube, purchase/rent movies on YouTube, then you’re good (although at this current time, YouTube is undergoing maintenance which leaves all movies and shows forced down to 480p). However, if you’re wanting to use it for other websites, just know what you’re getting into. If there was any other option for this outside of using the windows Magnifier tool which causes pixel artifacting and is always a pain to manage and is rarely ever a perfect fit to the screen, then I would give this a 2 or a 3 star rating. But this is all that’s available. So if you want to watch the Mandalorian in 21:9 as it was what prompted me to download this, this plugin is your best bet. It really emphasizes the issue with choosing to get an ultrawide, and it makes me wish that websites like Amazon and Disney+ would be considerate of people like us who are essentially cast out, with all the cinemascope films being rendered in 16:9 with black bars which just makes the screen size about 1/4 of the total size. It’s not like rendering content in its native aspect ratio would take up extra space or cause issues. In fact, for awhile, content on YouTube and Amazon *were* in their native aspect ratios. Then some time in the middle of this year, they decided to re-render everything in 16:9, with exception to Netflix. Netflix is the only site that seems to get it.
Doesn’;t work…
Does not work for me. Nothing happens. Video stays just like it was, with huge frame. No idea how to make it work.
works great with youtube ! 🙂