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Is there a trick to get it above 2x (which is the cap in the UI). It'd be nice when watching videos of congress.
by fossuser 7y ago
Is there a trick to get it above 2x (which is the cap in the UI). It'd be nice when watching videos of congress.
- NoodleIncident 7y agoThe extension he probably used is Video Speed Controller; it works on any HTML5 video, and you're not limited by whatever UI they've wrapped around that built-in functionality.
- zamadatix 7y agoI do it via `document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 3.0` in the dev console. You can up arrow to it similar to a normal terminal on the next video. The nice thing about this is you can put any float in e.g. 3.333. There are also extensions of course.
- aepiepaey 7y agoYou can also put this: javascript:(function(){document.querySelector('video').playbackRate=3.0;})(); as a bookmark on your bookmarks bar.
- dredmorbius 7y agoStreaming and download/playback tools can offer greater flexibility. I typically use mpv, though other options are mps-youtube, or for download + playback, youtube-dl and xine, mplayer, mpv, mps, or VLC. I find I can typically listen at 1.25 - 1.75 readily. Exceptionally poor content I'll bump to 2x. I don't generally go much above that unless I'm fast-forward scanning video for specific content.
- lozf 7y agoOpening directly in `mpv` gives a wide range of speed control, has keyboard shortcuts for everything, and as an added bonus, skips ads by default.
- systemcluster 7y agoI created a simple browser extension for this purpose, "YouTube Turbo Button". As mentioned in the other comment, it can be easily done through the console, but I found having a button for it more convenient.