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Vanced Features

KevinX8 edited this page Jan 27, 2021 · 4 revisions

SponsorBlock Intergration

Adds the ability to skip sponsorship segments and various other forms of in-video annoyances using the SponsorBlock API, all settings for it are described in the app.

Codec override

This provides you with the option overriding the device youtube thinks you're using to another to unlock features such as software/hardware HDR or forcing mp4 or vp9 encoding (manually overriding device is also possible by enabling dev settings).

Video Settings

You can override the max res your device is supposed to be allowed to use here to 4k and also set your preferred resolution depending on the type of network.

Ad Settings

  • Home ads

    Attempts to remove as many home screen ads as possible, it is still not able to remove every single one, however.
  • General layout ad removal

    Removes ads from many places where the ad is part of the page layout.
  • Community post removal

    Removes the community posts section.
  • Movie upsell removal

    Hides recommendations to buy a movie when searching for one.
  • Compact banner removal

    Attempts to hide banners below videos such as the covid warning one, currently has limited capability.
  • Comments removal

    Removes the comments section.
  • Compact movie removal & movie shelf removal

    Hides recommendations for movies below videos such as trailers for the movie etc.
  • Survey removal

    Hides the popup asking you to do a survey occasionally on the home screen.
  • Shorts Shelf

    Hides the youtube shorts shelf (TikTok style videos)
  • Community guidelines

    Hides the "follow the guidelines" banner shown above the comments section.

Layout settings

  • YouTube stories

    Removes the YouTube stories section.
  • End screens

    Hides the overlay shown at the end of every youtube video.
  • Info cards

    Hides the cards shown in the top right during a video with an (i) symbol.
  • Video watermark

    Hides the watermark shown in the bottom right of the channel logo.
  • Tablet mini-player

    Enables the mini-player design found in the tablet version of youtube (similar to the old mobile design).
  • comments location

    Moves the comments back to the bottom, the same place they are on the tablet version, however, this causes a lot of other bugs to occur.
  • create button

    Hides the new "+" button borrowed from TikTok and placed in the middle of the home screen.
  • Wide search bar

    extends the search to the full width of the screen.

Misc

  • Auto-repeat

    Allows you to automatically repeat the video when it ends.
  • Copy link

    Adds a button that allows you to copy the video link without opening the share menu, also with the option of including the timestamp.
  • HDR Max Brightness

    Allows you to lower brightness while watching HDR content.
  • Tapping on seek bar

    Brings back old seek bar behaviour where you could simply tap where you want to seek to.
  • ExoPlayer V2

    Allows you to override the version of ExoPlayer used, one may have better performance than the other on your device.

Swipe Controls

Adds VLC style controls for brightness and volume with configurable padding and detection thresholds.

Buffer settings

Internal Buffer settings for ExoPlayer, only edit them if you know what they're for.