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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

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.

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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

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.

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Turn Off the Lights is way more than a regular lamp button. It is the only browser extension that enables this innovation with all your video players on the web. From YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Twitch up to and including Youku one of the Chinese best video platform. With one browser extension you can connect to all of these websites. Since our previous version we received a lot of feedback from your users from the contact form, the review page and also from the press. And we are happy to announce that the new Turn Off the Lights version 3.4 embrace all the video platforms. This means that the great features such as Atmosphere Lighting works also outside the YouTube website.

Vivid Mode for all HTML5 video players

Now the beautiful vivid glow effect is also available outside the YouTube website. This means every website that support the HTML5 video player can get this amazing effect. So as you can see below in this image on the Dailymotion video website.

Screenshot Capture your favourite moment

In addition to previous feature improvement. Now in the Video Toolbar, you can see a new camera icon on the top right. If you click on this button it automatically snap that frame, and send the frame to the online screenshot editor.

On this online web page you see your original screenshot from the video player. And just below this screenshot you can tweak the colors, change the brightness, saturation, blur, grayscale etc. Then when you are ready you can choose to download the new image it directs on your computer. So you can for example use it on your YouTube video as a video thumbnail. Take a screenshot from the video player is available for on all HTML5 video players.

We hope you like the new features in the Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension v3.4 that is now available in the Chrome web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/turn-off-the-lights/bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn

Don’t forget to rate this extension to 5 stars. And if you can donate us, we appreciate it immensely. You can ensure that we just get this started to make you a more comfortable and enjoyable web experience. The update will come later this month also available for Microsoft Edge, Opera and Firefox.