What is Ambient light for YouTube™?

Ambient light for YouTube™ is a Chrome extension developed by Wezelkrozum, and its main feature is "Immersive yourself in YouTube™ videos with ambient light!".

Extension Screenshots

Download Ambient light for YouTube™ Extension CRX File

Download Ambient light for YouTube™ extension files in crx format, manually install Chrome extensions in the browser, or share the crx files with friends to easily install Chrome extensions.

Extension Usage Instructions

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
- Fade in duration

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

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
- Translucent header

6. Quality
- Limit framerate (per second)
- Resolution

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

Advanced features:
1. Ambient light
- Edge size
- Fade out start
- Fade out curve
- Debanding (noise/dithering)
- Flicker reduction
- Smooth motion (Frame blending)

2. Directions
- Top, right, bottom, left

3. Remove black & colored bars
- Bar detection offset
- Bar detection average
- Bar size (manual control)
- Sidebar size (manual control)
- Reset bars next video

4. Video
- Sync video with ambient light
- Debanding (noise/dithering)

5. Video page content
- Hide scrollbar

6. Quality
- Synchronization: Display framerate, Video framerate
- WebGL renderer (Uses less power)
- Save energy on static videos

7. Stats
- Framerate stats
- Frametime stats
- Resolution and drawtime stats

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

Extension Basic Information

Name	Ambient light for YouTube™
ID	paponcgjfojgemddooebbgniglhkajkj
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ambient-light-for-youtube/paponcgjfojgemddooebbgniglhkajkj
Description	Immersive yourself in YouTube™ videos with ambient light!
File Size	932 KB
Installation Count	6,758
Current Version	2.38.1
Last Updated	2023-12-14
Publish Date	2020-02-16
Rating	4.79/5 Total 96 Ratings
Developer	Wezelkrozum
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	https://github.com/WesselKroos/chrome-youtube-ambilight
Help Page URL	https://github.com/WesselKroos/chrome-youtube-ambilight/issues
Privacy Policy Page URL	https://github.com/WesselKroos/youtube-ambilight/blob/master/PRIVACY-POLICY.md
Supported Languages	en
manifest.json
{ "update_url": "https:\/\/clients2.google.com\/service\/update2\/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Ambient light for YouTube\u2122", "description": "Immersive yourself in YouTube\u2122 videos with ambient light!", "version": "2.38.1", "homepage_url": "https:\/\/github.com\/WesselKroos\/youtube-ambilight", "author": "Wessel Kroos", "icons": { "16": "images\/icon-16.png", "32": "images\/icon-32.png", "128": "images\/icon-128.png" }, "minimum_chrome_version": "88", "browser_specific_settings": { "gecko": { "strict_min_version": "74.0" } }, "action": { "default_icon": { "16": "images\/icon-16.png", "24": "images\/icon-24.png", "32": "images\/icon-32.png" }, "default_popup": "options.html" }, "background": { "service_worker": "scripts\/background.js" }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [ "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/" ], "exclude_matches": [ "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live_chat" ], "js": [ "scripts\/content.js" ] }, { "matches": [ "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live_chat" ], "exclude_matches": [ "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live_chat?is_popout=1" ], "css": [ "styles\/live-chat.css" ], "all_frames": true } ], "web_accessible_resources": [ { "resources": [ "styles\/content.css", "scripts\/injected.js", "images\/noise-1.png", "images\/noise-2.png", "images\/noise-3.png", "images\/donate.svg" ], "matches": [ "https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/*" ] } ], "options_ui": { "page": "options.html", "open_in_tab": false }, "permissions": [ "storage" ] }