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Cool Enhanced Cinema Mode for YouTube with one-click (#1 Tool)

Tomorrow, start in Europe the big summer vacation (months of July and August) for all children, students, and also the teachers. The time to relax and enjoy your vacation with no stress of the practicals and exams. And it is now the time to get your feet up on your couch and enjoy a great movie. That by a comedy, romantic, or action movie such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No TalesThe MummyTransformers: The Last Knight, and Baywatch.

Cinema Mode for YouTube

However, to get a good Cinema Mode for YouTube. You will need a way to get the most elements to show up automatically when you click on a button. That is all about what this new feature can do for you. This feature makes it possible to dim the web page and enable the Atmosphere Lighting feature (only on a playing HTML5 video).

YouTube video about how to enable the Atmosphere Lighting Vivid Mode

To use this feature, make sure you have the latest Turn Off the Lights Browser extension installed on your favorite web browser. And you must enable this option on the Turn Off the Lights Options page. See in the ‘Visual Effects’ tab, you will find this checkbox below.

Enhanced Cinema Mode for YouTube with one-click
Vivid options to get the Enhanced Cinema Mode for YouTube with one-click

When this feature is enabled, the Atmosphere Lighting effects will only work when these requirements are met:

  • There is an HTML5 video available on the web page
  • The current video is playing in your web browser
  • And you dim the web page

Now if you click on the gray lamp button or by pressing the key ctrl+shift+L, it dims this page. With the beautiful glow of the video player. If you do the light back on, then the glow effect around the video will be also removed.

Download the latest Turn Off the Lights browser extension. And give this one-click Cinema Mode for YouTube option a try.

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Stefan Van Damme

HTML5 video playback that Speed up YouTube videos

A new month, and a new way gets your video experience even better. Now in the Turn Off the Lights Browser extension v3.4.11.0 you can speed up or slow down the HTML5 videos. Such as on YouTube, vimeo, Dailymotion etc.

HTML5 Video playback

HTML5 video playback

When you add the toolbar for video playback control, you see the following speeds: -2 -1.5 -1.25 -1 -0.75 -0.5 -0.25 0 +0.25 +0.5 +0.75 +1 +1.25 +1.5 +2

Default is this feature disabled. But when you enable the HTML5 video playback from the Turn Off the Lights Options page. The new toolbar is only visible when you move your mouse inside the video content. This is designed to get you best video experience and you can see the video action again in slooowww motttioonnn. Or just to speed up the Baywatch “SlowMo Marathon” video in Los Angeles.

In addition to change manually the speed of that video player. There is also an option to set the default speed for all the HTML5 videos in the Options page.

We appreciate all the user feedback very much. It is thanks to you, that makes this online experience more better and comfortable. If you like this feature, please don’t forget to share this news with your friends. Rate this extension to 5 stars. And if you can make a donation we appreciate it very much.

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Stefan Van Damme

New Zoom on video player feature in the Turn Off the Lights Browser extension

Zoom on the video player. That is the most highly requested feature you and other users want in the next Turn Off the Lights Browser extension version. As we said before, that Turn Off the Lights is the ultimate video tool, and that extends this promise.

You can find this new feature in the Turn Off the Lights Browser extension v3.4.3.0 and higher. Also, we have improved a few other things such as the compatibility with YouTube’s new layout and the action command to automatically dims the web page.

zoom on video player YouTube

Zoom on video

How to zoom in a video player? To activate this feature enable the checkbox “Zoom on Video” feature in the Turn Off the Lights Options page > Advanced Options > Video Toolbar.

Then when you open a website with an HTML5 video player inside, move your mouse inside this video content. You see rights that it adds right a new panel. With one click you can zoom in, zoom out, rotate to left, rotate to right, move to the left, move to the right of the video content. And also on this panel, there is a reset button to get everything back to the default scale and position.

While you are in the Video Zoom Edit mode, the video player controls are automatically hidden. However, you can pause/play the video also in this zoom mode with this play/pause extra button. And when you are done, click on the green button to exit this zoom mode.

Automatically dims the web page

One of the first feature in this extension got also an update, now you can choose when to dims the page. This on the play, pause or stop button from that HTML5 video player.

Thank you all for your feedback and reviews. However, we still need your support. If you like this feature, please don’t forget to share this news with your friends. Rate this extension to 5 stars. And if you can make a donation we appreciate it very much.

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Stefan Van Damme