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FYTE /Fast YouTube Embedded/ Player

Hugely improves load speed of pages with lots of embedded Youtube videos by instantly showing clickable and immediately accessible placeholders, then the thumbnails are loaded in background. HTML5 direct playback (720p max) is used when selected and available.

As of 2016-07-24. See the latest version.

These are versions of this script where the code was updated. Show all versions.

  • v1.1.1 2015-08-25
  • v1.1.0 2015-05-13 fixup
  • v1.0.9 2015-05-13 override site's padding and margin for thumbnail elements
  • v1.0.8 2015-05-12 Remember volume, show option [x] resize to fit
  • v1.0.7 2015-04-29 explicitly set the fonts of the links
  • v1.0.6 2015-04-27 process old flash EMBEDs too
  • v1.0.5 2015-04-27 fixup
  • v1.0.4 2015-04-27 HTML5 mode: show a title on hover with a link to watch on youtube
  • v1.0.3 2015-04-24 don't break frames with autoplay=1
  • v1.0.2 2015-04-17 Add '?' to iframe src if needed
  • v1.0.1 2015-04-17 HTML5 player: better stream selection, should play hd720 by default
  • v1.0 2015-04-16

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