Universal Video Player Controls

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This extension lets you quickly seek video playback forwards and backwards.

Description from store This tiny and efficient extension helps you easily seek forwards and backwards in videos that are embedded in webpages. It does this by adding "keyboard controls" AKA "hotkeys" or "keyboard shortcuts" that you can use to make the video playback position seek forwards or backwards. No clickable GUI buttons are added, so you absolutely MUST use the hotkeys to operate the extension and control / seek the video. If you don't understand how to use hotkeys, then don't install this extension - you simply won't be able to utilize the functionality. This extension *attempts* to be universal, so that it works on *most* video & audio players embedded in the web pages of *most* websites. However, this is a technically challenging thing to do because there's many hundreds of different video player variations to account for. So, please be aware that it won't always work correctly. However, it does works properly most of the time, and so I believe you will find it useful, and certainly better than nothing. Please keep this in mind when rating the extension - the extension is intended for "power users" that can cope if it doesn't always work well. How to use it (only 2 steps): 1) Click on any video so that it starts playing 2) Use any of the following Keyboard Controls to make the video seek forward or backward: Keyboard Controls (windows / linux): Ctrl + LeftArrow: Seek backwards 3 seconds Ctrl + RightArrow: Seek forward 3 seconds Ctrl + SpaceBar: Toggle play / pause Ctrl + Alt + SpaceBar: Toggle mute / unmute Ctrl + Shift + LeftArrow: Seek backwards 15 seconds Ctrl + Shift + RightArrow: Seek forward 15 seconds Ctrl + Shift + DownArrow: Seek backwards to start Ctrl + Shift + UpArrow: Seek forward to end (great for skipping advertisements!) Keyboard Controls (Mac): Ctrl + Command + LeftArrow: Seek backwards 3 seconds Ctrl + Command + RightArrow: Seek forward 3 seconds Ctrl + SpaceBar: Toggle play / pause Ctrl + Alt + SpaceBar: Toggle mute / unmute Ctrl + Shift + LeftArrow: Seek backwards 15 seconds Ctrl + Shift + RightArrow: Seek forward 15 seconds Ctrl + Shift + DownArrow: Seek backwards to start Ctrl + Shift + UpArrow: Seek forward to end (great for skipping advertisements!) For example, hold the Ctrl key and then press the left arrow key twice to QUICKLY seek backwards 6 seconds! You can configure how far forwards and backwards each key takes you via the extension config page. To see the config page, click the extension icon on the top-right of your browser, then select "options", just like on any other extension. An ad-blocker is highly recommended in conjunction with this extension. Otherwise, videos from advertisements will get picked up by this extension, and your hotkey commands may get sent to the ad, instead of the main webpage video that you desire, causing the ad to seek forwards or backwards instead of the video. There are similar competing extensions to this one, but a key benefit to this extension is that you usually don't need the video to have "focus" in order to use the keyboard controls. This allows for easier usage. Often, you don't even need to first click the video in order to control it - you can begin using keyboard controls as soon as the page loads and the video starts playing, without ever using your mouse (assuming the video starts playing automatically). This extensions also offers some limited support of webpages that have multiple videos embedded in it - your hotkey commands are sent to the most recently active video, and -- if needed -- an easy way to declare your opinion of the most recently active video is to just click on the video. Limitations: - Sometimes, you may need to first click on a video before the keyboard controls will be able to control it. - Webpages that have more than 1 video playing at the same time may cause this extension to behave weird. Fortunately, not too many web pages do that, but some do (often, the 2nd video is an advertisement). - Keyboard controls don't work when you have your cursor in a text input field (such as a search field). - This extension doesn't work on 100% of all web pages, but should work for most. Maybe 95%. --------- Changelog --------- V1.4- Document hotkeys better. Add undo/redo functionality. V1.3 - Beta release.

Latest reviews

(2023-08-27) Mariusz: works great, works with sites that don't provide seeking with arrow keys functionality, but this extensions is ESPECIALLY great for all the shorts/reels/tiktoks/whatever, where you literally have no other way to control them. thanks for this!
(2023-08-02) KJ J: 킹왕짱
(2023-04-25) Zeshan Ahmed: I reinstalled this app again so I could leave a review. First it doesn't work, secondly it breaks all other sites. I wasted hours trying to figure out why the JS on other websites is not working. And this was the culprit. Please fix it or you'll receive more negative reviews.
(2023-03-11) Júnior Rezende: O nome descreve sua função e atendeu perfeitamente minha necessidade. Simples, rápido, prático e objetivo.
(2022-11-27) MOHANA KRISHNAPPA: not working
(2022-10-05) Nishant: Thanks a lot. Needed this for my study. Will surely let others know.
(2022-01-01) Adil Ashraf: wonderful!! a shortcut for toggling fullscreen would've been nice though. but I am not gonna complain.. better live with what you get.
(2021-10-11) Lucian Andries: How about literal Buttons on the player bar??????? And if it's Universal, then add seek Buttons for every Java player out there, so we can use your extension on all websites!
(2021-05-24) Naveen Rawat: Works with most of the video streaming sites, which do not offer such controls
(2021-04-15) Markkus Taylor: Adds much needed controls to the built-in Chrome video player.
(2019-11-08) Khoa Nguyen: Very useful, thank you so much. =)

Latest issues

(2022-12-13, v:1.4) Hari Krishna Dara: Chrome built-in audio player
I faced two issues on a chromebook: - When playing local audio files, none of the keyboard shortcuts worked - When playing an audio file from google drive, most of the keyboard shortcuts caused a reset back to the beginning. I.e., Ctrl+Right at 30s would cause it to start again from 0. I wonder if you can get this working as the built-in player has no corresponding controls, not even from UI.
(2021-06-26, v:1.4) raeford etheridge: external dvd drive wont play
dvd wont play
(2020-12-03, v:1.4) Praneeth Senadeera: Can you develop this to download videos
Can you develop this to download videos
(2020-12-03, v:1.4) Praneeth Senadeera: Can you develop this to download videos
Can you develop this to download videos
(2020-10-15, v:1.4) Michael Maritz: Change key binding
Hi. Thanks for the great work on this extension. Its the only one I could find that actually works. I would like to request the option to customize the key bindings. The remote I am using to control my media PC does not have a CTRL key. I understand the implementation of this might take a lot of time and might not be useful to others. If you can tell me which source files to edit that will already help me a lot. Thanks again for your great work and assistance.

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