![]() The UltraWideo extension is cross-browser and currently works with Chrome and Firefox, but I also made a submission to Opera and it’s on the way of approval. The browser extension that I developed for personal use and to help other consumers of UltraWide screens as well. ![]() Aside, assuming that neither is working with embedded videos. The main and most important problem with many, if not all of the extensions of this kind, is that they do not work across every single video streaming website. Providing one too many options is also the case in some of those extensions and instead of making it dumb, small and simple, they want to implement too many options and overcomplicate things for the end-user. The reality is, it can be solved much simpler and with a lot less code. I don’t want to bash other developers of the extensions with such purpose, but there’s just too much code duplication, extra libraries as dependencies, bugs, etc. When upscaling is not an option, there’s always a stretch option, which might look a bit weird in many cases, but still saves you those cropped portions of upscale. Since UltraWide screens are WQHD (1440p) resolution and not 4K, playing a 4K or 8K video and using such upscale functionality will look perfectly on your UltraWide screen. They simply zoom-in the video, by making higher width/height dimension, so the Y axis will be cropped to some proportion, where as X axis will then fill that unused space. What those extensions do, behind the scenes, is not a science. If you take a look at the Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge extension/add-ons Store, you can already find some extensions that can help you to solve the aspect ratio problem for UltraWide screens. Maybe video streaming services should allow creators a feature, to upload different rendered outputs for different aspect ratios, but I guess that’d be too much work for the creators. If you make this video full screen at 21:9 monitor, you will see a disaster. Nowadays, you can even see many videos on YouTube having 21:9 aspect ratio not rendered properly. For example: You can find some videos in 21:9 aspect ratio too, but it’s not that common. Whether you play the video with 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio, it will not look good on 21:9 UltraWide aspect ratio screens. It all depends on the aspect ratio of the video. You will notice the black bars the videos. Do you own an UltraWide screen? If so, the first thing that will start bothering you, will be the videos that you stream from the Web services!
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