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FastStream Video Player

by Andrew S

v1.3.76 Updated Mar 18, 2026 4.1MiB
CWS
60K
Users
★ 4.67
452 reviews
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Description

Tired of having videos buffer with slow internet speeds? Frustrated by a website's lack of accessibility features? This extension will replace videos on websites with a video player designed for your needs. Say goodbye to buffering and hello to a more accessible video experience! 1. Automatic fragmentation and parallel requests for up to 6x faster download speeds. Watch videos without interruptions by predownloading the video in the background. 2. Advanced subtitling features include: customizable subtitle appearance, built-in OpenSubtitles support to find subtitles on the internet, and an intuitive subtitle syncing tool to adjust subtitle timings on the fly. 3. Adjustable audio dynamics (equalizer, compressor, mixer, mono, volume booster), and video settings (brightness, contrast, hue, LMS daltonization for color blindness) for your unique audiovisual preferences. 4. 20+ remappable keybinds and accessible tool buttons for easy control of the player. 5. Available in multiple languages! Translated into Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Malay by the FastStream community. Support for more languages is coming soon! The player currently supports: - MP4 videos (.mp4) - HLS streams (.m3u8) - DASH streams (.mpd) - Youtube (download not supported on Chrome unless manually installed due to Web Store policy) To use the player, simply: 1. Go to any website you want with a video and toggle the extension on. Any video it detects will be automatically replaced with the FastStream player. 2. Alternatively, you can also simply click on or navigate to a stream manifest file (m3u8/mpd) to begin playing. 3. Navigate to a new tab and press the extension icon to go to the player. Play sources detected on other tabs through the Sources Browser. You can also drag and drop video files from your computer. Notes: - We do not officially support Brave, or other Chromium based browsers besides Chrome. Please keep in mind that not all features may be available on those platforms. - Livestreams are not supported. They will not be supported in the near future. - This player will not function with DRM protected content. This is intended. Please be mindful of how you use this tool. FastStream should not be used to infringe copyright. - This player is still a work-in-progress. Please report any bugs to the Github issue tracker here: https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream/issues - For your privacy, this extension does not collect telemetry. Nor does it require additional resources from the internet to function. It will work fully offline. Feel free to browse the codebase on Github. - We take accessibility concerns seriously! If you need accommodations not available in the latest version, please contact us and we will work on it ASAP. Also, please feel free to submit feature requests or suggestions on the Github issue tracker! - The default maximum size for pre-buffering is 5GB. This can be changed in the settings page. Please be mindful of your computer's storage space when changing this setting. Browsers will offload data in the RAM to the SSD if the video is too large. Frequently pre-buffering large videos can reduce the lifespan of your SSD.
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Reviews (25 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-07
Brian Paul

Faststream is not working at all the video is not loading will be removing

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-24
Lane

Doesn't even work with youtube. What is the point of the extension if it doesn't work with the most popular site to stream stuff at? Come on.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-12
Ganu Sirta

video player gives complete black screen as no video is available but audio is fine (just a blank screen while playing any video), please do look into this problem and help us

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-10
Josh Thompson

scam. does nothing

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-30
CLINTON CANN

Doesn't play drm protected videos meaning i can't watch most streaming services on starlink.

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-08
Paul Wolovich

Nothing happens when clicking the extension button on a webpage with a stream.

★☆☆☆☆2025-02-13
Corey N

Doesnt work. Every video ive tried to open with the video player gets stuck on a black screen and loads indefinitely

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-05
jalisa key

Remove the feature that limits how many subtitles one is able to download with OpenSubtitles. Why is there a 6 hour cooldown to download subtitles?

★☆☆☆☆2024-09-20
Veganarchy Zetetic

Does not work in 8K so is useless.

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-17
Adam Ameur

doesn't work, I'm on arc browser i tried everythingw

★★☆☆☆2026-03-08
Oliver Brooke

I have been using this extension for a while with no complaints. However, for about a month now it continuously fails to load fragments, causing me to miss chunks of what I am watching.

★★☆☆☆2026-02-26
Pongsatond Trechinapong

unintuitive control and menus cannot control specific playback rates other than that it's a good option

★★☆☆☆2026-02-20
Daniel Crothers

Good extension, but it completely ruins everything when it comes to videos that require you be logged in, it just straight up stops working and throws an error. Like seriously, couldn't it just switch to the other player that DOES work instead? So yeah don't use this if you want to watch any playlists.

★★☆☆☆2025-08-04
vlād

Works great when it does but most of the time it doesn't -- even fails to load the video at all. Sadly it had great promise but alas it's not living up to it.

★★☆☆☆2025-05-29
Zenith

I've been using this plugin for a long time, maybe a year now, but i just used it earlier and some buttons like the fullscreen and x buttons to close menus would open up external links/ads/shady websites unrelated to faststream (despite also having adblock on) which makes me believe at this current time the extension is unsafe and compromised. It was never like this before, so be wary when downloading this before its next update. I wouldve rated this 4 or 5 stars because this extension was my go-to for streaming videos because of its convenient and thoughtful features, but i can't give it the same rating anymore purely for this major issue that could put users at risk.

★★★☆☆2025-06-11
Spooky Calla

the loop doesn't work properly, I always set it to skip intros and outros of music but it still plays them no matter how i set the time on the loop. Also it amplifies the bass to DEAFENING levels and I can't adjust that any way.

★★★☆☆2025-05-28
The Batman

please solve the problem video is not playing and please improve ui design of video player.

★★★☆☆2025-03-27
Martin Moncada

its almost perfect, it has a quota on downloading subtitles, why does it even has that? update: sometimes there are fragments of a video that don't load, and you have to manually click a button to reload that fragment it should be automatic, also to not rely on the cache of a previous download if I refresh the page, for the cache itself might be corrupted and interrupts any try to reload a previous video sometimes it stops to download the video if a certain percentage is loaded, and waits for you the viewer to get to that part to keep downloading wich shouldn't be it should download the 100% of the video, allwyas, that's the main reason all of us even use this extention

★★★☆☆2025-02-04
Dr Doom

youtube video not playing and open subtitles not add problem. please fix soon please.

★★★☆☆2025-01-19
valeriu trofim

This is one of the must have extension to solve buffering issues but There are some problems with the player: 1. Lack of load subtitles from the internet function, opensubtitles do time out. 2. Lack of the next video button on the control panel and on all streaming sites, except youtube the key N (next video) doesn't work at all, which makes it unusable for tv shows. 2. It doesn't skip the intros when enabled to do so. 3. Subtitles settings are confusing and awkward to use. For Developers, Please fix at least the next video function and load subtitles from the internet, if it's possible make an paid Android tv Apk, so we can enjoy the player where it is supposed to be in the first place on TVs.

★★★☆☆2024-11-28
Oggy Billa

i am using past three days but i notice its very loading many time please fix this. and add more custumize settings like colour change option default subtitles add option. and when i use Lemur brower play video show i notice many button not working so please fix this. i requested please fix this issues fast. and please add custumize player option. please add more design for player people like any player so they add custom player please fast working on it.

★★★☆☆2024-11-07
Abhijeeth

Movierulz and ibomma like sites are not working fix this and on animepahe work but still buffer fix this

★★★☆☆2024-10-23
kitsuwaifune

Doesn't have full Brave support and since it's literally the last browser available with everything I need, I can't give this full stars. Main issue is full loading of the video doesn't happen with 1080p video. Setting the limit to infinity does not resolve the issue. If you don't care about fully loading a video, I will point out that everything else seems to be working perfectly however I know I personally mainly sought out this extension for this exact reason.

★★★☆☆2024-07-15
Daws Olson

It doesn't work anymore it just makes my screen black the video plays but my screen video is just pitch black please help

★★★☆☆2024-03-18
vulkit

Love the app's features! Would be great if it worked with streaming sites (Zee5, Hotstar) and Google Drive videos& other sstreaming websites. An Android TV app which will accelerate streaming apps like kodi & YOUTUBE HOTSTAR and Kodi addon for androidtv kodi any version would be amazing for wider use! and for no buffer

Permissions (5)

Permissions

declarativeNetRequest Can block or redirect network requests storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs userScripts webRequest Can observe and analyze network traffic

Details

Version 1.3.76
Updated Mar 18, 2026
Size 4.1MiB
First Seen Mar 24, 2026