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YePpHa / YouTubeCenter

YouTube Center is a userscript designed to expand the functionality of YouTube. It includes the ability to download the video you're watching, auto selecting your preferred video quality and much more.
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Player changed today? #1747

Open SuperSajuuk opened 9 years ago

SuperSajuuk commented 9 years ago

I just noticed the whole player has changed to a different format. Here's a screenshot showing that new format. The one thing I noticed is that 40px are lost from the video height due to the expanded player controls, meaning that setting the player to 1280x720 will actually created 1280x680 player, clearly out of proportion.

It's an interesting player. I did manage to get rid of it by deleting the VISITOR info cookie, which reverted it to the previous styling. The reason I don't like this new one is the fact everything is super large, as though everyone is blind to notice things.

Main question: will YT Center be able to compensate the 40px height loss in the new player?

Gyazo

LazyBoot commented 9 years ago

It does seem like YouTube has started rolling out a new player to some people... But if I leave youtube center (build 507) active I get this: Screenshot

EDIT: Seems to be related to the "Prevent autoplay" options... Turning it off will allow the video to play normally.

Yonezpt commented 9 years ago

Both of you are getting the transparent player which is still incomplete and is most likely having conflicts with YTC. If you want to opt-out you can do it via this link: https://www.youtube.com/testtube

And click on the "Restore original player" button.

hamkah2c commented 9 years ago

Errmm, I can't see/found the "restore original player" button. image

Zarggg commented 9 years ago

Try deleting all cookies set by YouTube. In the past YouTube has used cookies to track whether a user has an experimental player or layout.

In Chrome, you can do this by going to Settings -> Privacy -> Content settings... -> Cookies -> All cookies and site data... and searching for "youtube.com".

Edit: And of course I get hit with the test player right after making this post.

Yonezpt commented 9 years ago

@Zarggg You can't get rid of it via the cookies either? Can't believe they are forcing a feature that is still under testing by removing the opt-out button.

Zarggg commented 9 years ago

No, removing cookies did restore the regular player for me. I just thought it was amusing/ironic that I got the new one shortly after posting on this issue.

SuperSajuuk commented 9 years ago

I believe the cookie that YT uses to track people is the VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie. Simply deleting that one will remove any tracking data and give you a plain cookie when you refresh YouTube.

The new player just sucks. It's like they think I'm blind and that I won't notice whether a video is paused or not >_>