I did spend 25 minutes watching this video at 2x and I think it was a poor decision compared to reading the slides in 5 or 10 minutes.
Also, it’s a big hassle to download videos from youtube, because youtube doesn’t want you to do it and plays cat and mouse games. I used youtube’s own beta html5 player, which lets me do 2x playback (in mac/safari, but not in mac/chrome wtf). But youtube throttles download speed to normal playback speed, so I had to wait 25 minutes before watching. (Other ways of getting videos do not throttle speed, but back when I downloaded them as files, I usually couldn’t get them fast.)
You’re right, reading the slides is probably enough for this video but I guess there are some videos which you want to (or have to) watch but are too slow.
I myself use MySpeed. It costs 29$ but you don’t have to download the video and can change the playback speed from 0.3 to 3.0. There are probably equivalent programs for free, but my google-fu wasn’t strong enough to find them.
I myself use MySpeed. It costs 29$ but you don’t have to download the video and can change the playback speed from 0.3 to 3.0. There are probably equivalent programs for free, but my google-fu wasn’t strong enough to find them.
You can use mplayer or vlc to stream youtube videos and they have the ability to change playback speed.
Why don’t you use programs which increase the playback speed? You can still understand most videos if you double the speed. Saves a lot of time!
I did spend 25 minutes watching this video at 2x and I think it was a poor decision compared to reading the slides in 5 or 10 minutes.
Also, it’s a big hassle to download videos from youtube, because youtube doesn’t want you to do it and plays cat and mouse games. I used youtube’s own beta html5 player, which lets me do 2x playback (in mac/safari, but not in mac/chrome wtf). But youtube throttles download speed to normal playback speed, so I had to wait 25 minutes before watching. (Other ways of getting videos do not throttle speed, but back when I downloaded them as files, I usually couldn’t get them fast.)
You’re right, reading the slides is probably enough for this video but I guess there are some videos which you want to (or have to) watch but are too slow.
I myself use MySpeed. It costs 29$ but you don’t have to download the video and can change the playback speed from 0.3 to 3.0. There are probably equivalent programs for free, but my google-fu wasn’t strong enough to find them.
You can use mplayer or vlc to stream youtube videos and they have the ability to change playback speed.