[talkingquickly]

I think the counter view here is that video can be incredibly inconvenient depending on your exact use case. E.g. my scarcest resource is time and video is, for me at least, a very slow way of consuming content (compared to text). So if it's content that I need to consume quickly, video is a none starter.

If I'm browsing the web, I'm already reading textual content so reading is about as low effort as can be. Watching a video means "context switching", reading to watching, along with making sure I've got headphones on, pausing any music I'm listening to etc.

That's not to say the above is true for everyone, but for some people, watching a video is substantially less convenient and entails more effort than reading text.

[noir_lord]

One thing I do is use VLC and it's ability to speed up content without altering pitch.

I wish there was a more fluent way to control the playback speed (Fn Key and Mouse Scroll) but otherwise it works well.

Really handy for podcasts that while interesting tend to be a bit slow.

EDIT: Just checked new version, you can display the speed bar by showing status bar, clicking it and then hovering cursor and using scroll wheel, missed that before.