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You can also if you want turn the playback rate up of the video and have the same satisfaction in half the time :)
by jurmous 6y ago
You can also if you want turn the playback rate up of the video and have the same satisfaction in half the time :)
- the_duke 6y agoI recently started increasing playback speed on many videos I watch. It's really hard at first, but I quickly got used to it, to the point where I now use an addon to increase playback speed to 3-6x where appropriate. When there's something complicated, or something I want to enjoy and savior, I jump back and slow down. This is an incredible time saver. I got inspired to do this by observing a blind programmer use a screen reader with insane speeds.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI only recently discovered this, too. I was complaining about how I preferred reading than watching videos, partly because I can read a lot faster than someone can narrate, and because I can "skim-read" text. They suggested playing the video back at a higher speed, and it works fine. Still haven't quite solved the "skim-read" thing - guessing where the narrator stops the "welcome to my channel, smash subscribe and like, etc" bit is tricky.
- bmn__ 6y ago> guessing where the narrator stops the "welcome to my channel, smash subscribe and like, etc" bit is tricky. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wadsworth+constant+video https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wadsworth+constant+video
- marcus_holmes 6y agohahaha that's awesome, thanks!
- JackDrury 6y agowhich addon are you using for speedup?
- Hitton 6y agoEnhancer for YouTube can do that, but you can also do it with simple userscript. The userscript I found somewhere few years ago: // ==UserScript== // @name Mediabord // @version 01.1 // @description tryd to take over the world! // @author j // @match *://*/* // @grant metadata // ==/UserScript== document.addEventListener('keydown', function(event) { var vidz = document.querySelectorAll('video'); function is_text_box(element){ var tagName = element.tagName.toLowerCase(); return tagName === "textarea" || tagName === "input";} if(is_text_box(event.target)) return false; vidz.forEach(vidz => { switch (event.keyCode) { case 221: // (]) vidz.playbackRate+=0.25; break; case 219: // ([) vidz.playbackRate-=0.25; break; case 220: // (\) vidz.playbackRate = 1; break; case 83: vidz.currentTime+=3; break; case 65: vidz.currentTime-= 3; break; } }); });
- unkulunkulu 6y agoWait, what? Youtube has builtin control for that for years, behind the cog wheel at the bottom right of the video.
- hummusandsushi 6y agoThey're using the addon to be able to get 3x and 6x speedups, which are not available by default.
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- imjasonmiller 6y agoThis is great. The max being only two bothered me and I completely forgot that one could do that as well. I'm going to expand on the small script I wrote that sets the playback rate to twice the speed by default [1]. Thank you! :-) 1. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/136744/233601 https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/136744/233601
- metalliqaz 6y agoi don't know how you can go 3-6x. I listen to podcasts at 1.5x and if I go to 2x I don't absorb any information. I think to actually do 2x, I'd have to stop whatever I'm doing (driving, chores, gaming, etc) and focus specifically on the podcast. That feels like I'm wasting time again.
- yesenadam 6y agoReally, you can follow his explanations at 2x?! Less than 1x the satisfaction, I suspect.