YouTube Playback Speed - Mouse Wheel

[keyleoxauto]

Hi everyone, english is not my first language so forgive any mistakes.

I use Opera and to to control the playback speed of youtube videos I have an extension that allows me to do so, by pressing NumpadAdd and NumpadSub, but I want to do the same by just moving my mouse wheel WHEN MY MOUSE POINTER IS OVER A YOUTUBE VIDEO (is that even possible for AutoHotKey?), because I still want to scroll up and down the page to for example read the comments, you get me right?

This is the script I have, and even though it's not want I want, it still doesn't work:

SetTitleMatchMode 2
#IfWinActive YouTube
WheelDown::NumpadSub
WheelUp::NumpadAdd

[Exaskryz]

You'd need a way to know if your mouse is overtop the video itself or not. AHK and Opera probably don't have the best way to do that. If you're lucky, Opera creates a Control that Window Spy can see. Window Spy is included in your download of AHK - right click on any running script's tray icon (by the system clock) and select Window Spy.

I don't think AHK will be a solution for you to get exactly what you want. Instead, you'd probably need to write an extension yourself to activate those in-page hotkeys like that extension is doing but with a detection for if you are moused over the video. Javascript alone might be what you want, detecting WebPage Elements on MouseOver and creating hotkeys dynamically. No idea how to do that.

Alternatively, you can try using hotkeys to toggle on and off that action though, like pressing the MButton:

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#If ; no context-sensitivity
MButton::toggle:=!toggle

#If toggle ; or #If (toggle) && WinActive("YouTube") with a prior set SetTitleMatchMode, 2
WheelDown::NumpadSub
WheelUp::NumpadAdd

[keyleoxauto]

You'd need a way to know if your mouse is overtop the video itself or not. AHK and Opera probably don't have the best way to do that. If you're lucky, Opera creates a Control that Window Spy can see. Window Spy is included in your download of AHK - right click on any running script's tray icon (by the system clock) and select Window Spy.

I don't think AHK will be a solution for you to get exactly what you want. Instead, you'd probably need to write an extension yourself to activate those in-page hotkeys like that extension is doing but with a detection for if you are moused over the video. Javascript alone might be what you want, detecting WebPage Elements on MouseOver and creating hotkeys dynamically. No idea how to do that.

Alternatively, you can try using hotkeys to toggle on and off that action though, like pressing the MButton:

Code: Select all

#If ; no context-sensitivity
MButton::toggle:=!toggle

#If toggle ; or #If (toggle) && WinActive("YouTube") with a prior set SetTitleMatchMode, 2
WheelDown::NumpadSub
WheelUp::NumpadAdd

Hey that last thing works man! Sorry I call it "thing" but I know very little about AHK and scripts.
It's not exactly what I wanted (I have an extra step to do with MButton) but it works, so for now I'll take it. Thanks!

[4GForce]

Hey that last thing works man! Sorry I call it "thing" but I know very little about AHK and scripts.
It's not exactly what I wanted (I have an extra step to do with MButton) but it works, so for now I'll take it. Thanks!

Wouldn't something like this work ?? ( UNTESTED )

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WheelDown::
	WinGetActiveTitle title
	if(InStr(title, "Youtube - Google Chrome")) {
		send (NumpadSub)
	}
Return

Edit: you might wanna replace google chrome by opera something whatever the window title is

[keyleoxauto]

Hey that last thing works man! Sorry I call it "thing" but I know very little about AHK and scripts.
It's not exactly what I wanted (I have an extra step to do with MButton) but it works, so for now I'll take it. Thanks!

Wouldn't something like this work ?? ( UNTESTED )

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WheelDown::
	WinGetActiveTitle title
	if(InStr(title, "Youtube - Google Chrome")) {
		send (NumpadSub)
	}
Return

Edit: you might wanna replace google chrome by opera something whatever the window title is

Thanks 4GForce I tried but it doesn't work. I even change the title to YouTube - Opera and then to only Youtube.

You'd need a way to know if your mouse is overtop the video itself or not. AHK and Opera probably don't have the best way to do that. If you're lucky, Opera creates a Control that Window Spy can see. Window Spy is included in your download of AHK - right click on any running script's tray icon (by the system clock) and select Window Spy.

I don't think AHK will be a solution for you to get exactly what you want. Instead, you'd probably need to write an extension yourself to activate those in-page hotkeys like that extension is doing but with a detection for if you are moused over the video. Javascript alone might be what you want, detecting WebPage Elements on MouseOver and creating hotkeys dynamically. No idea how to do that.

Alternatively, you can try using hotkeys to toggle on and off that action though, like pressing the MButton:

Code: Select all

#If ; no context-sensitivity
MButton::toggle:=!toggle

#If toggle ; or #If (toggle) && WinActive("YouTube") with a prior set SetTitleMatchMode, 2
WheelDown::NumpadSub
WheelUp::NumpadAdd

Exaskryz I now have a problem, as long as I have a YouTube tab open, I can´t use MButton in other tabs to open links in new tabs for example, or close tabs (that's too many tabs haha) so I was wondering, is there a way to edit the script so the MButton toggle thing only works on a YouTube active tab?

[Exaskryz]

I had a comment that alludes to that. What you may want then is to use this code:

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SetTitleMatchMode, 2
#IfWinActive YouTube
MButton::toggle:=!toggle

#If (toggle) && WinActive("YouTube")
WheelDown::NumpadSub
WheelUp::NumpadAdd

#If ; resets context-sensitivity for any other hotkeys you may have

[keyleoxauto]

I had a comment that alludes to that. What you may want then is to use this code:

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SetTitleMatchMode, 2
#IfWinActive YouTube
MButton::toggle:=!toggle

#If (toggle) && WinActive("YouTube")
WheelDown::NumpadSub
WheelUp::NumpadAdd

#If ; resets context-sensitivity for any other hotkeys you may have

It doesn't work at all now.

I think that this: "SetTitleMatchMode, 2 #IfWinActive YouTube" is not working

What about pressing RButton while moving the mouse wheel up (NumpadAdd) and down (NumpadSub)?

[Exaskryz]

Did you make sure your SetTitleMatchMode, 2 was in the auto-execute section?

As for your alternative idea, you could try this:

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#If GetKeyState("RButton","P") ; if RButton is physically held
WheelDown::NumpadSub
WheelUp::NumpadAdd

#If ; reset context-sensitivity

Or just do a combination hotkey, and depending on your use case, with the ~ modifier.

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~RButton & WheelUp::Send {NumpadAdd}
~RButton & WheelDown::Send {NumpadSub}

[Haswell]

It might be more easy to use GreaseMonkey/Tampermonkey for this.