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I did spend 25 minutes watching this video at 2x and I think it was a poor decision compared to reading the slides in 5 or 10 minutes.
Also, it's a big hassle to download videos from youtube, because youtube doesn't want you to do it and plays cat and mouse games. I used youtube's own beta html5 player, which lets me do 2x playback (in mac/safari, but not in mac/chrome wtf). But youtube throttles download speed to normal playback speed, so I had to wait 25 minutes before watching. (Other ways of getting videos do not throttle speed, but back when I downloaded them as files, I usually couldn't get them fast.)
You're right, reading the slides is probably enough for this video but I guess there are some videos which you want to (or have to) watch but are too slow.
I myself use MySpeed. It costs 29$ but you don't have to download the video and can change the playback speed from 0.3 to 3.0. There are probably equivalent programs for free, but my google-fu wasn't strong enough to find them.
You can use mplayer or vlc to stream youtube videos and they have the ability to change playback speed.