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A little OT but I have often found that when watching hour long videos, esp. conference videos it is best to play it at least 1.5X its original speed. For some

A little OT but I have often found that when watching hour long videos, esp. conference videos it is best to play it at least 1.5X its original speed. For some reason not only does it save your time but maybe because the video is going faster I get less distracted and grasp more of it (maybe because your thought train isn't interrupted by other thoughts at faster speeds). This is also great for watching video tutorials by Linda, etc. Youtube had this feature inbuilt too but seems they've discontinued it now. There is an iOS app called Foxtube that thankfully has retained this feature. Or you can just download it and play it in VLC. Thought I'd share this "hack" since the Google video is 2 hrs long.

dpcx 14y ago
On youtube, if you're part of the HTML5 experiment (check at http://www.youtube.com/html5 http://www.youtube.com/html5), you can put the following in your address bar, to watch at a higher rate of speed: javascript:document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 2.0; This will work even while the video is already playing.
- andypants 14y ago
  I get a button on the video bar that lets me adjust the playback rate to different speeds.
  - dpcx 14y ago
    That "only" lets you go to 2.0x. I've been listening to podcasts at 2.0x recently, and wishing for 3.0x.
inuhj 14y ago
My med school broadcasted all of our lectures online within minutes of the lecture being done. Although some students(20% or so) enjoyed being there the rest of us watched them online at speeds of 1.5 to 2x. I still have my freshman class shirt that reads "I watched it in Double Speed".