That said, I appreciate thumbnails while scrubbing, and critically need playback speed multipliers. And key controls to skip ten or twenty seconds. Plenty of room for browsers to improve.
This is a built-in browser feature. For Chrome, it's in the lower right "..." menu. In Firefox, it's in the right-click menu. I use this feature heavily because I can handle most talking at 1.5× to 2.0×.
I even do this on YouTube (where `temp = $("video")`) to occasionally do 2.5× or 3.0× speed, which are not available in YouTube's official menu.
> key controls to skip ten or twenty seconds
I think the browser default is to skip 5 seconds at a time, so I'd just have to tap the keyboard twice to skip 10 seconds. I know that on YouTube, arrow keys are 5 seconds whereas J/L are 10 seconds, and I use both features. I can live with tapping the keyboard more in exchange for a server that delivers the video with lower latency.
> I use this feature heavily because I can handle most talking at 1.5× to 2.0×
a little of topic, but after years of doing exactly this, I'm having a very hard time handling talking at 1.0x. Normal speed feels like watching in unbearably slow motion.
Agreed. I still okay with real-life speech at 1.0×. But for recorded videos, I can usually handle higher speeds because I am also reading captions at the same time to fill in any unclear words, and I do exercise my option to seek back to re-listen to any part that I didn't understand - two things I can't do in real life.
Out of all of those features, Firefox only seems to lack thumbnails while scrubbing (and those are very expensive to calculate on the fly, which is why Youtube serves up tiny JPEGs when you scroll).
This is a built-in browser feature. For Chrome, it's in the lower right "..." menu. In Firefox, it's in the right-click menu. I use this feature heavily because I can handle most talking at 1.5× to 2.0×.
And if you use browser devtools, you can do custom speeds outside the range [0.25, 2.0]. Assuming that `temp` is the <video> element, simply execute the JavaScript code like: `temp.playbackRate = 3.0;` ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... , https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaEl... )
I even do this on YouTube (where `temp = $("video")`) to occasionally do 2.5× or 3.0× speed, which are not available in YouTube's official menu.
> key controls to skip ten or twenty seconds
I think the browser default is to skip 5 seconds at a time, so I'd just have to tap the keyboard twice to skip 10 seconds. I know that on YouTube, arrow keys are 5 seconds whereas J/L are 10 seconds, and I use both features. I can live with tapping the keyboard more in exchange for a server that delivers the video with lower latency.