Video Glow — ambient light for any video

Soft ambient glow around any video on any site, also in fullscreen. Fills black bars. Shape, blur and size are fully adjustable.

Video Glow turns your screen into a small home cinema: a soft light in the colours of the picture appears around any HTML5 video. Works on YouTube, Twitch and any other site. Free, no account needed. WHAT'S NEW IN 1.5.0 • Auto preset: the glow recognises what is on screen (film, anime, games or sport) and adjusts itself smoothly • Glow window: a separate window glows with the video colour; move it to a second monitor (Chrome) • Room lights keep working while the video is in picture-in-picture • New first run: a live example, one-click style choice and settings import from a backup • New languages: Deutsch, Español, Português (Brasil), Polski, Türkçe RECENTLY ADDED • Light up the whole room: a WLED strip by zones around the screen, Philips Hue lamps by zones, any lights through Home Assistant; lights return to how they were after the video • Scene reaction: a soft flash on sharp cuts and a slow "breath" in dark scenes (flash protection always wins) • Film, Anime, Games, Sport and Music presets, plus a choice of colour-change curve FEATURES • Any site, videos in iframes, and fullscreen • Two styles: soft blur or LEDs; Room colour tints the whole page • Frame shape, size, edge softness, blur, brightness and saturation • Detects black bars baked into films • Video filters, night comfort, flash protection, glow that pulses to the sound • Cinema mode, on/off button on the video, per-site settings • Floating settings panel (Alt+Shift+G), hotkeys, settings backup • 8 languages Privacy: no data is collected; everything runs on your device. Hue, WLED and Home Assistant talk only to your own devices on your home network.