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by thmt 1671 days ago
Video Speed Controller lets you speed up any HTML5 video. No more sitting through videos at 1x speed!

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/

Even for a site like YouTube that has built-in speed control settings, it's still useful since (1) you can make the speed exceed 2x and (2) you can use keyboard shortcuts to tune the speed easily.

8 comments

Can I now has 4x speedup for meetings?
Sure. You now have time for 4x more meetings! Enjoy!
Not just any videos. Now I even speed up movies on netflix. That's why I have to watch them on laptop now, as I can't speed them up on TV.
Wow thanks! This is exactly what I need thanks to constant phone notifications which have reduced my attention span to.... that of something with a small attention span!
While I do use video speed controller as well, just for the record - there are shortcuts for video speed manipulation for YouTube:

> Speed up the video playback rate. < Slow down the video playback rate.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7631406?hl=en

This extension is amazing if you have to do mandatory training videos at work and they speak at a snails pace.
Multiple tabs of videos playing on 4x speed. We did speedrunning contests on these mandatory training videos in my previous company. Good times.
Enhancer for YouTube has a feature like this. Love that extension
Good to see you can adjust by intervals like 0.10, YouTube's default increments of strictly 0.25 make it impossible to watch most videos at a reasonable pace.
Video Speed Controller was an absolute revolution for me. No more switching tabs because the video is too slow.