rthaut / YouTubePopoutPlayer

This browser extension provides a simple way to open any YouTube video or playlist (including videos and playlists embedded in other sites/pages) in a configurable "popout" window which you can freely position and resize.
https://rthaut.github.io/YouTubePopoutPlayer/
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Does not work with "/live" youtube URLs #295

Open demux4555 opened 4 years ago

demux4555 commented 4 years ago

If the URL of the YouTube page does not contain the video ID, it's not able to do its job.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/c/euronews/live

KSneijders commented 3 weeks ago

To add to this, also does not work on vods (videos that were livestreamed before and can be watched back later).

For example:

This can be circumvented by going to the equivalent /watch?v= url:

Would be nice if this would work. Took me a minute to figure out why it sometimes worked, and sometimes didn't.