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I imagine there could be an interesting means of moving the playhead along with your skimming, so when you highlight a block of text (as I do, habitually), the
by enobrev 10y ago
I imagine there could be an interesting means of moving the playhead along with your skimming, so when you highlight a block of text (as I do, habitually), the video would play through the selection and pause at the end. I'd love to use text as a video controller.
- trevyn 10y agoThis is a great idea -- text is much faster to read, but watching a speaker is much more information-dense due to body language and intonation. This would be a fun hack. Looks like the YouTube caption data is available via API: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/captions/download https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/captions/downl...
- hanniabu 10y agoI can't try this out at the moment, but from looking at the documentation I don't see it say that it returns the timestamp of the caption anywhere.
- hanniabu 10y agoYes, this is pretty much what I was picturing except without having to select the end, this way it doesn't just cut off when you were still interested in what was being said even though you might not have planned on watching past that particular point.