FastStream browser extension claims to improve upon YouTube's video participant

Tired of getting to wait whilst movies buffer? This extension will update movies on web sites with a custom player that is designed to play with minimal buffering.

• Take advantage of automated fragmentation and parallel requests for as much as 6x faster downloads.
• As you watch, pre-download the video to instantly store the video (and subtitles) as an mp4 document at the frenzy of a button.

The participant presently supports:

• MP4 motion pictures
• HLS streams
• DASH streams
• YouTube (down load NOT supported, please see GitHub)

In addition, the participant has a bunch of functions to make lifestyles simpler:

• OpenSubtitles support so that you can look for subtitles at once from the participant.
• Subtitle offset controls to accurate bad subtitle timings in the participant
• Precise video previews when soaring over the timeline.
• Helpful (remappable) keybinds which include: Alt to hide player, Z to undo are searching for, <> to skip 2 seconds.
• Adjustable video brightness, assessment, saturation, hue, and extra
• Adjustable quantity, up to 300% quantity increase
• Configurable audio dynamics: Has audio mixer, equalizer, and compressor tool built in

Should you like binging shows, the participant additionally comes equipped with a custom video analysis machine that runs in the heritage to pick out intro/outro sequences based on repetitive scenes. Once they had been diagnosed, you can skip them easily by way of urgent S.

To use the participant, actually:
1. Go to any internet site you want with a video and toggle the extension on. Any video it detects could be mechanically replaced with the new player.
2. Alternatively, you can also absolutely click on or navigate to a move happen report (m3u8/mpd) to begin playing.
three. Drag and drop documents to the participant to start gambling. Navigate to a brand new tab and press the extension icon to visit the player.

Notes:

• This participant will now not function with DRM protected content material. This is intended.
• This participant remains a work-in-development. Please file any insects to the Github problem tracker right here: https://github.Com/Andrews54757/FastStream/troubles
• This extension does no longer accumulate telemetry of any kind. Nor does it require additional sources from the internet to feature. It will work absolutely offline. Feel unfastened to browse the codebase on Github.
• We take accessibility severely. If you want resorts now not to be had in the contemporary model, please contact us and we will paintings on it ASAP.

What's New

• Settings are now exportable/importable
• Small fixes