feat: A-B loop feature (YouTube)

[wibucter]

Application

YouTube

Feature description

Add an A-B loop button to the Player overlay (Player → Player buttons → Overlay buttons) so users can loop any arbitrary segment of the currently playing video.

Button behavior:

• First click - mark start point A at the current playback time. Show a small marker on the seekbar.
• Second click - mark end point B at the current playback time and immediately start looping between A and B. Highlight the A-B part on the seekbar
• Third click - disable the A-B loop and clear both markers. Remove the highlight on the seekbar.

Example:

Motivation

When I listen to music or long videos on YouTube I often want to loop a short segment (the best part) repeatedly. Currently I have to download the audio/video and open it in a separate media player that supports A-B looping - that’s inconvenient and slow. Adding an A-B loop button in the player would remove the need to download and re-open media so it will be much more convenient.

Acknowledgements

• This issue is not a duplicate of an existing feature request.
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[MondayNitro]

there's a clipping feature in youtube for that

[wibucter]

there's a clipping feature in youtube for that

You mean remix feature?

I mean just loop the segment right in the video, not publish another video as short, also it only works for 5s in the video

[MondayNitro]

there's a clipping feature in youtube for that

You mean remix feature?

i checked to find that clip button has been removed in newer versions

[wibucter]

i checked to find that clip button has been removed in newer versions

Found it, but it still only works for 60s, meaning it doesn't work on segments that longer than 60s

[wibucter]

i checked to find that clip button has been removed in newer versions

Also just found that it doesn't show the clipping button in videos that shorter than 2 minutes