Video Ambient Light - Ambient light for browser videos
Video Ambient Light is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that projects a dynamic, moving background color beyond the borders of online video players. It transforms standard viewing sessions by matching the dominant colors of what is playing on screen and casting them softly across the rest of the web page. The extension functions locally on the user device without requiring accounts, logins, or external video uploads, maintaining local privacy for settings and processing.
Key Features
- Dynamic Color Sync: Translates colors from the active video into a fluid, shifting background that blends seamlessly between scene changes.
- Multi-Platform Support: Extends ambient lighting effects across YouTube watch pages, livestreams, and Shorts, alongside TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Facebook Reels.
- Portrait and Landscape Modes: Fills empty screen space around vertical videos like Shorts and Reels with full-page ambient color.
- Customizable Controls: Adjusts glow intensity, page ambience, color softness, spread, saturation, and frame rate through an extension popup.
- UI Transparency Management: Configures transparency levels separately for interface elements so the background glow remains balanced.
- Resource Management: Pauses drawing tasks automatically on background tabs and offers manual frame rate scaling to optimize browser performance.
The extension caters to web users, media consumers, and digital creators seeking an immersive viewing environment across major video and social platforms. It operates completely free of charge as a standalone client-side browser add-on for Chrome and Firefox environments.
