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is4junk comments on Lifehack Ideas January 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Gondolinian 01 January 2015 02:34AM

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Comment author: is4junk 04 January 2015 04:04:33PM 3 points [-]

I watch nearly all youtube videos on 2x speed and sometimes wish it would go faster (all video services that don't have this are evil). If you are right about voice consistency allowing for going even faster that would be awesome. Will just need accurate voice->text to speed it up even more.

Comment author: Gondolinian 20 January 2015 04:52:55PM 1 point [-]

I watch nearly all youtube videos on 2x speed

I was going to try this, but I can't figure out how. Do you need a YouTube account or some kind of browser plugin?

Comment author: is4junk 20 January 2015 05:24:32PM 1 point [-]

Nothing is required that I know of. Here is a video. At the bottom right there is the settings icon - gear shaped. Speed is an option.

I have seen on a small minority of videos the option wasn't present in settings however researching on the title can sometimes get a link to a video that is.

Comment author: Gondolinian 20 January 2015 05:37:53PM 1 point [-]

Weird, when I click on settings for that video, I only see options for Annotations, Subtitles/CC, and Quality. When I click on the Options link to the right of Subtitles/CC, I see all kinds of options for fonts and colors, but nothing for speed.

Comment author: is4junk 20 January 2015 06:05:34PM 1 point [-]

I normally use chrome. But I did see the problem with IE. IE is using the default video player. You want to use the htlm5 player.

Go to this page and select the 'use html5' button and try again. https://www.youtube.com/html5

Comment author: Gondolinian 20 January 2015 06:20:01PM 0 points [-]

It works now. Thanks!

Comment author: sumguysr 14 April 2015 06:36:19PM *  0 points [-]

On windows you might like to try Daum's Potplayer. It's extremely lightweight software with tons of handy features and will play both youtube videos and playlists and scale speed all the way to 12x.

I use it for most youtube videos just to decrease my firefox memory usage and improve its responsiveness.