I've always thought that the video player size on Floatplane seemed a bit small - especially so after I upgraded to an ultrawide monitor. I got curious and found that the player has a max-width set to 1246 pixels. I thought this was a bit strange as I would have thought max-width should be 1920 pixels for 1080p (with height adjusting depending on aspect ratio)? My guess is that the layout was designed on a 1920x1080 monitor, as with the side nav + some padding the 1246px width does look fine. That being said, I have next to no experience with video production / delivery, so there may be another reason that I'm not aware of...
Either way, I found that changing this max-width to 1920px looked much more pleasing to my eye on my ultrawide, so I decided to build a chrome extension to automatically toggle this for me!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/floatplane-cinema-mode/illocnfoncohhonnhlpdjafenjndaclo
It adds a 'cinema mode' button to the player controls, which just toggles some CSS & saves your preference to local storage so that the 'cinema mode' status will persist
Code is here if anyone's curious: https://github.com/mr-black-8/floatplane-cinema-mode
Thought I'd share for anyone else who'd prefer an option in between the current size & full screen. I'm considering adding functionality to minimize the side nav to increase the player size on smaller monitors. Let me know if there's any interest in that, as it won't really be of any benefit to me personally.
As a side note, I did message Floatplane support about this a few months ago, and received a super nice response saying it would be passed on to the dev team, but I have not doubt that this would be right at the bottom of the low priority list
