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Severance, I turned the playback speed faster by 20% or something and it actually became much more pleasant to watch with wierdly no adverse effect?

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lotsofpulp 3y ago
Severance’s story is good, but has a ton of garbage time, like many or most other streaming shows. I just skip the middle few episodes and feel like I did not miss a beat.
hinkley 3y ago
I really wish YouTube allowed 1.10 playback speed. It’s just fast enough to save you some real time on long video series, but slow enough that you can still absorb difficult subjects. Even slow talkers become fast talkers on 1.25 speed. 1.10 is perfect for most audiobooks.
- howinteresting 3y ago
  There's a bookmarklet for that: https://andrewsteele.co.uk/stuff/youtube-playback-speed-bookmarklet/ https://andrewsteele.co.uk/stuff/youtube-playback-speed-book...
  - stronglikedan 3y ago
    Only works with web based viewers, unfortunately.
- hombre_fatal 3y ago
  document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 1.1
- alimbada 3y ago
  SmartTube (for Google/Android TV) used to allow this but a recent update has removed the other speed increments and it now only lets you use the usual increments you find on YouTube. :(
- dsmmcken 3y ago
  I agree, I like 1.1 speed. The playback dropdown actually has a "custom" button in the top right of the dropdown on the desktop view of the site. You can set 1.05 and 1.1 playback speeds with it. It's a little annoying to use on mobile, as you have to switch to "desktop" view in the browser and can't use the app.
  - hinkley 3y ago
    I watch a lot of YouTube from Apple TV so it’s a limiting factor. Either on my real TV, or via input switching on one of my monitors when working on tedious tasks.
- LordDragonfang 3y ago
  Honest suggestion, try getting used to listening to things at faster speeds. I started listening to podcasts at increasingly faster speeds, going from 1.1 to 1.2 and slowly increasing it. It only took a few days to a week of listening to slightly-too-fast-for-comfort content before it started sounding normal and I could bump it up again. Now the slowest I listen to is at 1.5 (going up to 1.6 or even 1.8 for my "filler" podcasts). Videos I can crank even higher, since the addition of visual content and/or subtitles can help process the audio information. I now watch half my videos at 2x speed, and 1.25 or even 1.5 are how 1.1 used to seem for me.
  - sleepytimetea 3y ago
    Do the ads also run at 2x ? ;-)
  - hinkley 3y ago
    So rather than using 1.10 - which doesn't exist - I should get to 1.25... by using 1.10 and ramping up?
- spaceman_2020 3y ago
  I watch most non action-focused YouTube videos and podcasts at 1.5-2x speed and I honestly don’t lose any comprehension at all with the speed bump
- vikingerik 3y ago
  I use this Firefox extension to get 1.10 or 1.15 speed on Youtube: https://github.com/WaldiPL/playbackSpeed https://github.com/WaldiPL/playbackSpeed

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lotsofpulp 3y ago

Severance’s story is good, but has a ton of garbage time, like many or most other streaming shows. I just skip the middle few episodes and feel like I did not miss a beat.

hinkley 3y ago

I really wish YouTube allowed 1.10 playback speed. It’s just fast enough to save you some real time on long video series, but slow enough that you can still absorb difficult subjects. Even slow talkers become fast talkers on 1.25 speed. 1.10 is perfect for most audiobooks.

howinteresting 3y ago
There's a bookmarklet for that: https://andrewsteele.co.uk/stuff/youtube-playback-speed-bookmarklet/ https://andrewsteele.co.uk/stuff/youtube-playback-speed-book...
- stronglikedan 3y ago
  Only works with web based viewers, unfortunately.
hombre_fatal 3y ago
document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 1.1
alimbada 3y ago
SmartTube (for Google/Android TV) used to allow this but a recent update has removed the other speed increments and it now only lets you use the usual increments you find on YouTube. :(
dsmmcken 3y ago
I agree, I like 1.1 speed. The playback dropdown actually has a "custom" button in the top right of the dropdown on the desktop view of the site. You can set 1.05 and 1.1 playback speeds with it. It's a little annoying to use on mobile, as you have to switch to "desktop" view in the browser and can't use the app.
- hinkley 3y ago
  I watch a lot of YouTube from Apple TV so it’s a limiting factor. Either on my real TV, or via input switching on one of my monitors when working on tedious tasks.
LordDragonfang 3y ago
Honest suggestion, try getting used to listening to things at faster speeds. I started listening to podcasts at increasingly faster speeds, going from 1.1 to 1.2 and slowly increasing it. It only took a few days to a week of listening to slightly-too-fast-for-comfort content before it started sounding normal and I could bump it up again. Now the slowest I listen to is at 1.5 (going up to 1.6 or even 1.8 for my "filler" podcasts). Videos I can crank even higher, since the addition of visual content and/or subtitles can help process the audio information. I now watch half my videos at 2x speed, and 1.25 or even 1.5 are how 1.1 used to seem for me.
- sleepytimetea 3y ago
  Do the ads also run at 2x ? ;-)
- hinkley 3y ago
  So rather than using 1.10 - which doesn't exist - I should get to 1.25... by using 1.10 and ramping up?
spaceman_2020 3y ago
I watch most non action-focused YouTube videos and podcasts at 1.5-2x speed and I honestly don’t lose any comprehension at all with the speed bump
vikingerik 3y ago
I use this Firefox extension to get 1.10 or 1.15 speed on Youtube: https://github.com/WaldiPL/playbackSpeed https://github.com/WaldiPL/playbackSpeed