Youtube New UI Fix

Fixes the new UI to one that resembles old one

As of 2015-08-09. See the latest version.

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Author

Roy192

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Version

1.5

Created

2015-08-05

Updated

2015-08-09

Size

9.39 KB

License

N/A

Applies to

youtube.com

This user-script is based on my user-style on userstyles.org (Youtube Controls Under Player). Sadly enough a user-style is not going to cut it to cleanup the garbage Youtube has made (again). The main problem was that the time did not update when not hovering over the controls. This script solves that by adding an interval that calls the onmousemove event of the controls.

To customize the script a little, I've added a few checkboxes to the playback settings page on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/account_playback

Features:

Non-transparent controls
Controls are not over the video
Controls don't hide at all
Controls have the old colors back
Controls are smaller (35px vs 40px)
Controls will update, they won't freeze until you hover over them
Controls take up the whole width
In full-screen mode, the controls are also always visible, original colors, and they are smaller (35px again)
Option: re-enable auto-hide only in full-screen
Subtitles don't move up and down when going over the video
The settings that popup (for changing the quality, etc) have a non-transparent background
It also seems to play nice with the Resize YT To Window Size script (except for the slow scrolling when a video at 720p+ 60fps is playing, but that might be just me)
Controls are smaller in full-screen
Option: move the watch later button to the controls (at the bottom) or don't
Works for embedded videos, but the height is not adjusted and will make the videos slightly taller than intended.
Option: remove the play/pause animation in the middle of the video

Things still to do:

Remove the silly animation of the play/pause button, if possible

Things I can't do (if you know how to do any of these things, let me know):

Change the width of the progress bar, doing so will bug out the progressbar.
Increase the height on embedded videos