Try to enforce HD (16:9) camera aspect ratio for web-video calls

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Version
1
Update
September 25, 2020
Size
106KiB
Developer
Category
Users
2,000+
Rating
4.16667 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Https://*/*
Storage
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HD Camera Feed in Video Calls Extension

This browser extension attempts to fix a problem I've experienced on some video-calling sites (specifically, Zoom/WhereBy/Google-Meet), where their web clients don't properly ask for HD (1280x720 or 1920x1080) resolution from your camera, and in some cases (like mine) it results in squished/distorted video instead of just nice cropping as would be expected.

This extension patches the built-in \"getUserMedia(..)\" API to intercept these kinds of calls and to force a request for 1280x720. Thus, if your camera supports that 16:9 HD aspect ratio, a proper non-squished feed will be returned to the web client. If your camera only supports 4:3 aspect ratio, such as 1024x768 or 640x480, then the request should nicely downgrade for your camera and still provide non-squished (albeit not-HD aspect ratio) video for your calls.

By default, the settings for this extension only apply the patch to Zoom/WhereBy/Google-Meet sites. You can change the settings to apply to different sites. There's also a handy enable/disable toggle switch if you want to quickly turn off the extension temporarily without actually uninstalling it.
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Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

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Kenneth Bailey Sr. (ID: 000000c4428a7739) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 01/21/2022 Great extension. My camera is a lumix gx85. It was causing my video calls to be squished. Once I ran this extension, every site is working. I use webex for medical, google meet for personal, and sometimes zoom for business. All three are now working fine.

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Ivan Del Duca (ID: 000000a7ee7a27ea) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/17/2021 It's great and works perfectly for me! I'm using a Sony mirrorless camera as a webcam, attached to the PC with an HD video capture card. I've tried everything butt Google Meet always stretched my video and my business calls where a bit awkward (I usually use Zoom that doesn't have this problem, but sometimes I have to use other software). This extensions solved my problem. Thank you, Kyle!

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Иван Бодров (ID: 00000011b14c745f) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/13/2021 It worked well for me, thanks a lot. I had sony a5100 through usb capture card with wrong aspect ratio. Nice idea to hook api call to getUserMedia.

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Positive Vibes (ID: 000000a62d5722fc) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 10/22/2020 It doesnt work!