Add keyboard support to Chrome's native HTML5 video player.
Tired of Chrome's primitive built-in HTML5 video player?
This extension adds an extensive list of keyboard controls to improve your viewing experience. The shortcuts are only active on videos with the default controls enabled, so don't worry about them messing up YouTube or other custom video players. To enable controls (and keyboard shortcuts) on videos that don't have them, just right-click the video in question and select "Show controls".
Note that this extension is only meant to affect Chrome's native HTML5 video player!
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FULL LIST OF SHORTCUTS:
-Click:
Select video, Play/Pause selected video
-Double-Click / F:
Toggle fullscreen
-Space / K:
Play/Pause
-Left Arrow / J:
Skip back 5 seconds
-with Shift: 10 seconds
-with Control: 1 second
-Right Arrow / L:
Skip forward 5 seconds
-with Shift: 10 seconds
-with Control: 1 second
-Comma (,):
Skip back 1/60th of a second
-Period (.):
Skip forward 1/60th of a second
-Home / 0:
Skip to beginning
-End:
Skip to end
-Numbers 1 - 9:
Skip to X% (10%, 20%, 30%, ... 90%)
-Up Arrow:
Increase volume
-Down Arrow:
Decrease volume
-M:
Toggle mute
-C:
Toggle captions
-R:
Reload video file
-Less Than (<):
Slow down video playback
-Greater Than (>):
Speed up video playback
-Question Mark (?):
Return to default playback speed
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This extension is open source!
https://github.com/AjaxGb/Better-Chrome-Native-Video
Changelog:
-v4.1.5 - Fix native controls stealing keyboard events
-v4.1.4
-Fix numpad numbers not working (thanks sauravc)
-Update extension to Manifest V3
-v4.1.3 - Fix options page not working with HTML5.1
-v4.1.2 - Improve direct videos' compatibility with other extensions
-v4.1.1 - Fixed unwanted wrapping on options page
-v4.1
-Default values for options displayed in hover text
-Added arrow key skip amounts to options
-Added ability to enable shortcuts on videos that do not use the default controls
-Disabled by default; see options page
-v4.0.4 - Fixed clicks not working on standalone videos
-v4.0.3 - Fixed multiline options being squashed
-v4.0.2 - Improved visibility of disabled options
-v4.0.1 - Fixed delay not working on standalone videos
-v4.0
-Added an options menu!
-Added a slight (optional) delay to clicks
-Prevents double-click briefly play/pausing the video
-v3.4 - Added Double-Click to toggle fullscreen
-v3.3.1 - Made performance improvements more stable
-v3.3
-Added "C" to toggle captions
-Major performance improvements
-v3.2
-Fixed error when disabling shortcuts on a video
-Added auto-focus when shortcuts are re-enabled
-v3.1
-Fixed keyboard shortcuts activating unintentionally
-For example, Ctrl-F used to fullscreen the active video
-Holding Ctrl while skipping left/right changes skip length to 1 second
-v3.0 - Added right-click option to disable shortcuts on individual videos
-v2.0
-Major behind-the-scenes refactoring
-Better prevention of default key events
-v1.5 - Fixed some dynamically added videos being ignored
-v1.4 - Added "R" to reload video
-v1.3
-Bug report "Works as Intended", v1.2 reverted
-Videos get focus when fullscreened
-Minor bugfixes
-v1.2
-Added forward compatibility for when this bug is fixed: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=592245
-v1.1 - Moved to GitHub
-v1.0 - Initial release
Latest reviews
- (2023-08-23) Ishak MP: For those looking for a solution: At first it didn't work for me. I enabled 'Allow Access to Urls' Option and restarted chrome. Yeh! It worked for me. Give your try.. 👍
- (2022-12-24) md shovon: Just mind-blowing, Any web player just behaves like vlc player
- (2022-04-28) santanu das: playback speed control does not work
- (2021-09-27) Walker Chow: Doesn't work anymore. :( It was good.
- (2020-11-15) Ohad: Doesn't work with Zoom cloud recordings (html5).
- (2020-09-17) John Doc (Unkonwn): Really a great extension. I was looking for something like this for long. Great job Mate. Thanks :)
- (2020-03-28) Tuấn Kiệt Nguyễn: GOOOD. App hay
- (2019-11-25) Сергей Семёнов: Thank you so much. Great app
- (2019-11-16) Edward Northwind: Don't work on youtube.
- (2019-10-31) Rnksts: Does what it says, really helpful. Thanks!
- (2019-08-01) Minho Cho: 편하긴한데 이 앱 쓰면서부터 비디오 반응속도가 느려졌네요. 그게 확연히 보여요.
- (2019-06-23) Justice Seeker: No longer maintained. Doesn't work with most sites since it disables itself. Some sites can be re-enabled by right-clicking and selecting 'enable controls' however about half of the time it STILL DOESN'T WORK. No updates since 2017 means these issues will never be fixed. Suspicious reviews in history that appear identical to reviews of other speed control extensions. Author should step up or remove extension completely.
- (2019-03-16) Nguyen Pham: ok
- (2019-02-06) ThisDaveAndThatJohn: Estensione che salva i nervi!! In tutti i player normali ho abitudine di saltare 5 sec. in avanti o indietro usando le frecce, invece, il player standart non ha questa funzione. Questa estensione lo risolve. Consiglio un sacco!!!
- (2019-01-13) J K: does not work? -Less Than (<): Slow down video playback -Greater Than (>): Speed up video playback -Question Mark (?): Return to default playback speed
- (2018-12-29) Michael Toub: Works with facebook videos - exactly what I wanted !! Thanks!
- (2018-10-21) PingPong tt: good job!
- (2018-10-10) Samet Can Cıncık: Good Job!
- (2018-09-08) S Ali: It works fine when i watch html5 video on some site. So this is a great add-on BUT when i play video with a direct URL like http://examples.com/file.mp4 then it doesn't work at all. Any solution for this please?
- (2018-08-18) J !: This is a gem.
- (2018-07-15) Eugene Fitzherbert: Really good extension. The default player is garbage.
- (2018-05-15) XandBacon: Amazing job. Works exactly as intended!
- (2018-05-02) Adarsh V: Thank you! It uses all Youtube shortcuts. Really helpful & a huge time saver especially for laptops.
- (2018-04-22) Mustang: Does its job good.
- (2018-04-06) Yvan Zhu: slow and fast can't work
- (2018-02-12) พงศกร กิ่งนอก: I was surprised
- (2018-01-24) kr: exactly what i was looking for, awesome
- (2017-12-19) ccjmne: Great job! I usually don't bother with anything that's got fewer than 500 reviews but hey, I'd have been wrong to pass on this one :)
- (2017-11-21) Eric Alvaro: Thank you dude, it worked like a charm!
- (2017-09-10) Phạm Sỹ Hưng: awesome!
- (2017-09-01) nick ebi: I was surprised at how easily it worked. Great job!
- (2017-07-23) The Os: No longer works
- (2017-07-23) spera: dont like it since you can't decide what keys you want to use for what.
- (2017-07-05) Florian M: This extension is necessary for watching videos with the built-in video player without it being a frustrating hassle. I love it.
- (2017-06-29) Issa Almassri: was looking for this along time. really very useful.
Statistics
Installs
7,000
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Category
Rating
4.1183 (93 votes)
Last update / version
2024-03-11 / 4.1.5
Listing languages
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