It would help if Youtube made it possible to play videos at maybe 1.4x or 2x their regular speed. It’s still not as fast as reading, but less slow. I yearn for the day when all of Youtube’s videos use the HTML5 video tag, and we can do this at the browser level.
Or listen to the interview while you’re playing Super Mario World romhacks (or whatever). That’s my overly-specific method for enjoying interview videos.
It would help if Youtube made it possible to play videos at maybe 1.4x or 2x their regular speed. It’s still not as fast as reading, but less slow. I yearn for the day when all of Youtube’s videos use the HTML5 video tag, and we can do this at the browser level.
I am confused (cf Grice) by that statement, because it’s all true about the particular video: if you are in the beta, then it uses the video tag and offers (at least to me) a control to switch to 2x. Even if it is flv, you could download the video and run it in a standalone player. A standalone player also lets you get past the 2x offered by youtube, my chipmunking software (quicktime) doesn’t work well past that. I think there are better algorithms, though. (ETA: almost all youtube videos have mp4 downloads, even if they aren’t available as html5. I don’t actually have a flv codec.)
I used to multitask (and still do with the news in the morning), but I find I get a lot more out of the talk if I pay attention. And running it fast makes that a lot easier, since it’s all or nothing.
It would help if Youtube made it possible to play videos at maybe 1.4x or 2x their regular speed. It’s still not as fast as reading, but less slow. I yearn for the day when all of Youtube’s videos use the HTML5 video tag, and we can do this at the browser level.
Or listen to the interview while you’re playing Super Mario World romhacks (or whatever). That’s my overly-specific method for enjoying interview videos.
I am confused (cf Grice) by that statement, because it’s all true about the particular video: if you are in the beta, then it uses the video tag and offers (at least to me) a control to switch to 2x. Even if it is flv, you could download the video and run it in a standalone player. A standalone player also lets you get past the 2x offered by youtube, my chipmunking software (quicktime) doesn’t work well past that. I think there are better algorithms, though. (ETA: almost all youtube videos have mp4 downloads, even if they aren’t available as html5. I don’t actually have a flv codec.)
I used to multitask (and still do with the news in the morning), but I find I get a lot more out of the talk if I pay attention. And running it fast makes that a lot easier, since it’s all or nothing.