Reviews for Ultrawidify
Ultrawidify by Tamius Han
111 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13885103, 7 years agoDoesn’t work anymore. The aspect-ratio buttons are gone and the automatic aspect-ratio works perfectly wrong every time, so it’s useless.
Developer response
posted 7 years ago> the automatic aspect-ratio works perfectly wrong every time, so it’s useless.
Untick this: https://imgur.com/iN1orfZ
Also go here: -> https://github.com/xternal7/ultrawidify/issues
and add a few links (with timestamps, preferably) to the problematic videos. Optionally also include screenshots that illustrate the issue.
> The aspect-ratio buttons are gone
Moved to here, actually: https://imgur.com/Irfd05Q - and keyboard shortcuts should still work. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13828963, 7 years agoI really like this extension when watching mixed aspect-ratio videos, the extension quickly catches the black bars and shrinks or stretches the video automatically to the correct ratio.
Sadly I had to uninstall the extension, as it breaks video players on several sites including reddit. The blacklist option doesn't work to resolve this issue. Would love to install again someday when this is fixed.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThe issue with reddit and other sites should be fixed. It's not a proper fix, I've just set extension to not work on any site other than youtube or netflix and sites that you explicitly enabled via the extension button/popup.
I've also kinda solved the problem with the memory leak: extension will only check for changes in aspect ratio once per second if the video is playing. This massively reduces RAM usage back to acceptable/negligible levels.
On that note: I've also added an option for you to change how often the extension checks for changes in aspect ratio, but turning that number back to 30 (what it used to be) is not recommended because RAM usage will skyrocket for technical reasons (tl;dr of which is pretty much "blame javascript"). - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13747437, 7 years agoPlease return control buttons on bottom player bar. Or make its activation as option.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12560938, 7 years agoубраны кнопки соотношения сторон , видимо разработчики решили что без них лучше , все как всегда сделать хорошо а потом все испортить
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13719283, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13499140, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13696797, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13685058, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13671024, 7 years agoWorks nearly flawlessly (the buttons on the video player disappeared, but they keyboard shortcuts still work just fine). Love it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by caio.matrix, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13599090, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6001196, 7 years agoAwesome job! Since I got an ultrawide monitor, I was sick of all the retards who post ultrawide videos with black bars on YouTube. This add-on solves the problem beautifully, keyboard shortcuts and control panel added to the video work perfectly too!
Thank you! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13606013, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by drsal, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13455126, 7 years agoJust let me click the widen button on all netflix videos... don't make it check imbd or whatever, just put the button there for everything! thanks :)
Developer response
posted 7 years agoNetflix is actually broken right now (according to multiple reports), but unfortunately I haven't been able to get access to netflix yet.
I'm working on a fix (along with some other changes), though — but the buttons aren't making a comeback. Only the keyboard shortcuts will stay. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12700324, 7 years agoGreat plugin, works perfectly on youtube but stopped working on netflix recently. Still a must have to any 21:9 users.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13321847, 7 years agoI use this addon to watch Netlix in 21:9, recently it stopped working on Netflix. The control panel isn't displayed, using D to force 21:9 isn't working either.
On youtube, the control panel is being displayed and the key shortcut D is also working.
But as i mainly use this addon when watchin Netflix (i rarely need to watch a music video in 21:9) im really bothered by it not working.
Also, even as it still worked on Netflix - the automatic ratio detecion never worked, not on youtube and not on netflix.
Would appreciate it greatly if you could fix this soon.Developer response
posted 7 years agoPlease make bug reports on Github, as it makes it easier for me to track them.
https://github.com/xternal7/ultrawidify/issues
Regarding netflix: thanks for mentioning it. Unfortunately, I won't be able to fix netflix until at least two months from now due to financial issues.
Regarding autodetection: It was specifically stated it only works on Netflix. Are you sure you sure your Netflix is in English (and that the movie is in English/original title)? Are you sure that the movie is on iMDB _and_ OMDB?
Given that I'm finally freed of my real-life commitments that took most of my time for the past six months, I'm slowly starting working on this extension again, which makes me rather interested in the details of any reported bug. - Rated 1 out of 5by Mateus, 7 years agoit doesnt crop properly, it just do a zoom, and every video i watch i need to enable this app, terrible
Developer response
posted 7 years agoBug reports this way please ---> https://github.com/xternal7/ultrawidify/issues
Take care to include browser version, OS, monitor resolution, other extensions.
Potentially also screenshots because I don't know what the hell you mean with 'doesn't crop properly'. "Fit to width" should crop perfectly if you're watching 21:9 content encoded in non-21:9 aspect ratio on a 21:9 monitor.
And if you have a monitor with aspect ratio wider than 21:9 (this one Samsung), you should use 'Force aspect ratio' option for proper letterbox removal.
(Also please note I'm currently on hiatus due to some personal issues. If all goes well, I'll be able to continue with October)
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EDIT: I think I might have randomly stumbled over the "doesn't crop properly" instance. There's this trailer for Salt that's 16:9 + letterbox, but the video isn't 21:9. This leads to extension cropping away too much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ40WlshNwU
Which is why there's zoom/unzoom binds.
Automatic aspect ratio was impossible(-ish)¹ a year ago. It's still impossible-ish¹ now.
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¹It's actually within the realm of theoretical possibility, but whether that's gonna work with Youtube is unclear until I test it. There's also further potential complication with attempting auto-aspect ratio on youtube, vaguely outlined under this review:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ultrawidify/reviews/829521/
TL;DR: potential performance issues.
Inb4 "but it can be done on netflix" — Netflix aspect ratio "autodetection" isn't true autodetection and is only possible because IMDB generally posts aspect ratio of every movie it knows. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12563786, 7 years agoAlready Firefox 57 compatible, unlike fucking Lastpass...
Great work! - Rated 5 out of 5by Jake B, 7 years agoI love this add-on.
Unfortunately, it doesn't play nice with Maxime RF's Enhancer for YouTube. When both add-ons are enabled, videos are left-aligned in fullscreen mode which looks awkward. If this is unavoidable, it would be great if there was an option to enable/disable one site or the other (I mostly use it for Netflix anyway).