Echo360+

Provides various improvements to the Echo360 video streamer/downloader
What is Echo360+?
Echo360+ is a Chrome extension specifically designed to improve various functionalities of the Echo360 video streamer and downloader. It allows better file naming for downloaded videos, offers more playback speed options, adds day to lecture date strings, enables hiding of future lectures, and repositions the view lecture popup. This extension was primarily developed for the USyd lecture system, yet it can be universally utilized with potential customization according to individual university systems.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 3.67 (3)
Version: 1.3.2 (Last updated: 2020-10-14)
Creation date: 2020-06-11
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 18.06K

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Extension summary

The current features are listed below.

  1. ● Better file names when you download videos ● Instead of downloading lectures as hd1.mp4, lectures are downloaded with informative file names. This is especially useful when you are downloading multiple lectures from different units at once. e.g. "hd1.mp4" → "DATA1001-2019-09-29.mp4"

  2. ● More video playback speed options ● Previously the lectures were limited to playback speeds of between 0.5x and 2x. This extension adds 4 faster playback options (2.25x, 2.50x, 2.75x, 3.00x) for those especially slow lecturers.

  3. ● Add day to lecture date strings ● Echo360 only displays the date (e.g. 4th Aug), but not the day (e.g. Wednesday) on the list of lectures for a particular unit. As most people usually associated lectures times with days rather than dates, I often find myself opening a calendar app to check the date a particular lecture was run, when simply displaying the day would be enough information to deduce this myself. Thus, this extension also adds a small 3 letter day string next to each lecture.

  4. ● Allow hiding of future lectures ● Echo360 will normally display every lecture (including those not released yet), and does not provide a feature to hide them. This extension add a checkbox to hide future lectures, which is enabled by default. The default ordering is also set to newest first so that when combined with the hiding functionality, all relevant lectures are immediately visible.

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User reviews

Creates an issue with some sites detailed here> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54126343/how-to-fix-unchecked-runtime-lasterror-the-message-port-closed-before-a-respon
by Kristjan Variksoo, 2021-09-27

This is one of the best google chrome extensions I have ever used!! 100% would recommend
by Sachini Seneviratne, 2019-11-11

This extension is sufficient in performing its task as claimed.
by Ben Braham, 2019-10-01
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Echo360+ requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Echo360+ has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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