How to Watch Videos at 1.5x speed

[Mick West]

I watch all videos at 1.5 now.

For this to work you need to have the HTML5 player set up in your browser. Go to the following page, and click on "Request the HTML5 Player"
https://www.youtube.com/html5

 

[Ross Marsden]

I watch all videos at 1.5 now.

Not available in some jurisdictions....

Boo to YT; what are you thinking?

 

[WeedWhacker]

Boo to YT; what are you thinking?

Did you mean the variable speed option on YT? AFAIK (and I often use the feature) it is available to those viewing from the U.S. Cannot speak for other viewing regions.

FYI.....YT recently "changed" the choices....whereas it used to be 1 or +1.5 and +2.0. Now there are "intermediary speeds" of "+1.25" and "+1.75" (although, your speeds may vary! ).

(ALSO.....0.25 and 0.50.......slooooowwwwwwww mooooootion......)....No, not "Moo-tion" (sorry, couldn't resist a very terrible joke, here! No cows were harmed in the creation of this joke).

 

[cloudspotter]

Did you mean the variable speed option on YT? AFAIK (and I often use the feature) it is available to those viewing from the U.S.

Short attention spans?

 

[WeedWhacker]

Short attention spans?

Yes. Some YT vids NEED to be "sped up". I mean, I don't have a "minute" to
waste!~! (joking, naturally).

Still....some can seem interminable....

 

[Mick West]

Not available in some jurisdictions....
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Boo to YT; what are you thinking?

It only works if you are using the HTML5 video viewer, not the Flash viewer. It should be doing that by default now if you use Chrome.

 

[David]

I watch all videos at 1.5 now.

Is that to save time?

Edit: Dumb question maybe, probably the only logical reason.

 

[NoParty]

I've been begging my co-workers for years to hold the damned meetings in 1.5

Unfortunately, their brains have trouble keeping up with their mouths even at .5
(and sometimes Mario gets a bit pixellated @ 1.5)

 

[Mick West]

Is that to save time?

Edit: Dumb question maybe, probably the only logical reason.

Not entirely, it also makes the videos easier to watch even if you have lots of time. A slow trickle of information just makes my brain shut down in frustration. And some people just speak annoyingly slow.

Try it on this interview with William Gibson. His slightly slurred normal speech sounds vastly better at 1.5, even though the interviewer sounds a bit rapid.

 

[WeedWhacker]

I've been begging my co-workers for years to hold the damned meetings in 1.5

Oh.....I love you!!!!

 

[David]

Not entirely, it also makes the videos easier to watch even if you have lots of time. A slow trickle of information just makes my brain shut down in frustration. And some people just speak annoyingly slow.

Try it on this interview with William Gibson. His slightly slurred normal speech sounds vastly better at 1.5, even though the interviewer sounds a bit rapid.

I don't have that option. Not available in the Netherlands I guess.
But I get why you want to listen to this interview in 1.5 speed.

 

[Mick West]

I don't have that option. Not available in the Netherlands I guess.
But I get why you want to listen to this interview in 1.5 speed.

Here's a demonstration for you:


Have you tried using Chrome?

 

[David]

Here's a demonstration for you:


Have you tried using Chrome?

Doesn't even sound strange.
I normally use Firefox, but I just downloaded Chrome and now Youtube has a speed option.
So I'm going to play with that now, thanks.

 

[Pete Tar]

Would a convert flash to html video extension for your browser do the same thing?

 

[Mick West]

Would a convert flash to html video extension for your browser do the same thing?

Does not sound very likely.

 

[Mussharraf Hossen Shoikot]

I see this feature occur on my part only when i set youtube to html5 mode.

 

[solrey]

Thanks for the tip. My out of date Safari browser was not set to use HTML5 by default so I went to the following page and selected it...

https://www.youtube.com/html5

Many browsers support both the video element in HTML5 and either the H.264 video codec or the WebM format. These include:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Opera
• Apple Safari

 

[Mick West]

Thanks for the tip. My out of date Safari browser was not set to use HTML5 by default so I went to the following page and selected it...

https://www.youtube.com/html5

Many browsers support both the video element in HTML5 and either the H.264 video codec or the WebM format. These include:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Opera
• Apple Safari

Added this info to the OP

 

[JRBids]

This is soooooooooooo useful to me. I hate clicking on something and there is no article, just a YouTube video. And yes I am Type A.

 

[Ross Marsden]

Wow! What a great feature.
Thanks!

 

[Thomas]

Cool feature and time-stretching the audio instead of pitching it.

Tried two browsers on ipad, both do not support it for this location. I guess I never get the time to watch that ten hour video of black screen.

 

[Thomas]

It is working now for me. The time-stretching of the audio sometimes makes it hard to understand at 1,5x speed. I really have to pay 1,5x times more attention to English and German. For Dutch language it's alright.

Now when people accuse me of replying to quickly in a thread and not watching 2,5 hours of 'undeniable proof' from beginning to end, I can blame it on the speed control.

 

[WeedWhacker]

It's worse when you use the controls to go to 2X speed. But, helps to skip through the boring parts.....