Rewind and forward YouTube video's even with outfocussed browser (Chrome). Handy for USB Wheel such as Griffin Powermate

[Sneeuwvos]

Hi guys,

If you have a USB scrollwheel, such as Griffin PowerMate USB (https://viralgadgets.net/wp-content/upl ... vnqw32.jpg), and have YouTube running in a browser window somewhere, then this will be handy for you.

Normally a USB scrollwheel will only do a certain action, such as: scrolling up/down, volume up/down. But like the PowerMate USB you can also run executables. This is where AutoHotKey comes in.

On my ultra wide screen I have a browser left having YouTube open and a browser right just browsing another site. Whenever I use the wheel I always want to rewind/forward YouTube without first pressing the left browser. So these scripts do that. NetFlix and VLC still work if there is no browser with YouTube open.

Have fun!


SCRIPT FOR SCROLLING YOUTUBE BACKWARD:

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SetTitleMatchMode, 2
WinActivate, YouTube
Send, {Left}

SCRIPT FOR SCROLLING YOUTUBE FORWARD:

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SetTitleMatchMode, 2
WinActivate, YouTube
Send, {Right}

SCRIPT FOR PAUSE/PLAY YOUTUBE:

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SetTitleMatchMode, 2
WinActivate, YouTube
Send, {Space}

[SrGeneroso]

Awesome, I use it with streamdeck and work pretty well, just try to not have more than one tab in front with youtube in the title, I haven't tested in all setups but it'll do the trick.
I've done some changes and added some more hotkeys.

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ActWin := WinActive("A")
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
WinActivate, YouTube
Send, {K}
WinActivate, ahk_id %ActWin%

First line is to store the current window to reload it after the hotkey is used in youtube
Last line is the restore said window so you don't have to alt tab or click again to recover control of the windows you were using.

then here is the list
PLAY/PAUSE

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Send, {K}

REWIND

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Send, {J}

FORWARD

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Send, {L}

MUTE

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Send, {M}

SPEED UP

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Send, {>}

SPEED DOWN

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Send, {<}

NEXT FRAME (when paused)

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Send, {.}

PREVIOUS FRAME (when paused)

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Send, {,}

VOLUME UP

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Send, {Up}

VOLUME DOWN

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Send, {Down}

FULLSCREEN

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Send, {F}

CLOSED CAPTIONS

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Send, {C}

Thanks for sharing the main functionality and I hope some find it useful.