Ambient light for YouTube™

Ambient light for YouTube™ is a Chrome extension developed by Wezelkrozum. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Ambient light for YouTube™ is 2.37.24, updated on 2023-03-21.
4,000+ users have installed this extension. 71 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

Immersive yourself in YouTube™ videos with ambient light!

This extension will surround YouTube™ videos with ambient light inside your browser. No need for extra hardware like lightstrips or smart lights like ambilight, it's all in your browser!

Tip:

Are you using a widescreen or portrait monitor? Enable both the "Remove black bars" and "Fill video to screen" features to automatically fill your monitor with any video that has black bars.

Features:

1. Ambient light
- Blur
- Spread

2. Black bars
- Remove black bars
- Remove black sidebars
- Also remove colored bars
- Fill video to screen width

3. Filters
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Vibrance
- Saturation

4. Video
- Size (scale/zoom)
- Shadow

5. Video page content
- Shadows on elements
- Buttons, boxes and images opacity
- Hide elements in theater mode
- Hide scrollbar
- Translucent header

6. Quality
- Energy saver (for videos with a static image)
- Limit framerate (per second)
- Resolution

7. General
- Enable only in view mode(s): small, theater, fullscreen
- Appearance (theme): Light, Default, Dark
- Enabled/Disabled

Advanced features:
1. Ambient light
- Edge size
- Fade out start
- Fade out curve
- Debanding (noise/dithering)

2. Directions
- Top, right, bottom, left

3. Black bars
- Black bar detection offset
- Black bar size (manual control)
- Black sidebar size (manual control)
- Reset black bars next video

4. Quality
- Framerate stats
- Frametime stats
- Resolution and drawtime stats
- Synchronization: Display framerate, Video framerate
- WebGL renderer (Uses less power)
- Sync video with ambient light
- Smooth motion (frame blending)

Requirement:

A video card with a score of at least 1000 points in the PassMark G3D Mark benchmark is recommended.
Check your video card's score here: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
With a score lower than 1000 the extension will still work but it is likely that the YouTube video page will be slow and/or stuttering.

Contribute:

You can view the source code and contribute to this open source project at https://github.com/WesselKroos/youtube-ambilight

Privacy & Security

This extension only runs on tabs that start with the url https://www.youtube.com. The extension will only activate the ambient light effect on YouTube's /watch page

The only requests being sent are crash reports. (But crash reports can be turned off.) No other requests are sent to any webserver, website or api. But in case a crash occurs the report is sent to Sentry.io and will always be deleted after 30 days. Because the only goal of these crash reports is to fix the crash. While doing so we also take into account your Do Not Track preference. For more information about Do Not Track visit https://allaboutdnt.com