via this comment from @Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml
laughs in NewPipe
Laughs in Grayjay
Last I heard grayjay made the choice not to include sponsorblock
sponsorblock is included alongside a comment that you should support creators
Laughs in Firefox, which allows plug-ins in mobile. I can have all my ad blockers and video speed controllers, and anything else.
You should give NewPipe or Tubular (NewPipe fork with sponsor blocker) a try, it provides a better user experience.
Lol nope, out of principle I will never pay for this even if I didn’t already hate Google.
It feels so condescending to the user, so unconcerned with their agency that I could never bring myself to support this choice with even a tiny amount of money.
100% agree. The problem is that there are more and more features that get tugged behind the subscription paywall
It was never a free feature; they used to only allow up to 2X speed. Not that that justifies it at all of course.
Wdym? I can literally increase to 5x speed on my YouTube client for free rn
I could also only increase the playback speed to 2x at maximum. Firefox and no YouTube specific add-ons are used.
Download it and play it however you want in VLC.
I can barely follow and absorb anything at 1.5-2x.
Beyond that, more power to you.
Yeah, this change has no practical effect on me. But removing and paywalling features is concerning nonetheless.
Speeds over 2x were never a free feature, they just used to not be an option at all.
I’m ADHD and I can’t do it. XD
For extremely slow speakers 3x is possible.
Yeah, 2x is normally my limit, sometimes 2.5x. Very occasionally there will be content that gets 3x or more, but it’s incredibly rare. It has to be something pretty slow.
Stallman speeches are optimal at 2.5-3x
Some lectures and instruction videos are only watchable at 4x or higher.
Luckily there’s extensions and alternative apps that provide a much better user experience than the default one, including being able to increase playback speed as much as you want.
That’s so stupid it feels like satire. But I guess it’s not too surprising.
I have my own speed control that I can adjust or enter max speed for.
Wait until they find some stupid way to lock down Chrome extensions. I just know they will.
This extension is for Firefox. Get off the chrome platform in all the places you can
NewPipe
also its fork Tubular if you enjoy SponsorBlock
or PipePipe
You can use
yt-dlpto download it and play it in whatever movie player you want that supports variable speeds, unless and until YouTube cracks down on downloading.I use jdownloader2. I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl. I’m not sure.
I was curious so I downloaded the Mac version of yt-dlp (as I am on Mac), couldn’t get it to run. And I’m comfortable with the command line.
YouTube kinda is cracking down on downloading though. If a video is marked as adult (you need to sign in to view it), it can’t be downloaded. A lot of “official videos” (like trailers from the studio) can’t be downloaded. Subtitles can’t be downloaded. That’s in jd2. Not sure about yt-dlp.
I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl.
You’re probably thinking of
youtube-dl. I’d guess that it most-likely used that at one point, but probably switched toyt-dlpwhen YouTube started throttling single-stream downloads.
$ yt-dlp <URL>
I am not one to fear the terminal, but do people actually use this to browse YT? What does this workflow look like? Searching video URLs, manually copying them into this cli, and then opening the downloaded file?
No, it isn’t useful to browse.
I use it for grabbing low quality music and ‘subscribing’ to various channels (checks and downloads new videos every 10m) in order to avoid having to give the algorithm my eyeballs.
If you just want to scroll, something like FreeTube would do what you want. It blocks ads and has sponsorblock built-in. You can subscribe to videos via the app (which is all stored locally, not in any account, you don’t have to log-in.)
Check out MeTube. It is just a wrapper for ytp-dl. You can set extention in a way that only icon needs to be clicked. Everything is automated. No need to do anything in CLI.
Is now a paid feature?
Was playback over 2x (through the official app) ever supported for free?Why and what type of videos are you watching at 2x speed?
Idk what to tell you, a lot of youtubers talk pretty fuckin slow
Listening to people talk faster gives me anxiety. It’s the closest thing (I guess) to feeling like I have ADHD. Like I’ve done a bunch of speed but without any of the dopaminergic effects.
I don’t know how anybody does it to be quite honest. Even putting a podcast on 1.25x is too much. It’s like I know they are talking faster than they should and it makes me feel cracked out.
I watch basically everything that isn’t music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.
That’s what I wanted to know. Until I realised I don’t care how people watch YouTube and that it’s more annoying to me that Google is paywalling something that costs them nothing to implement.
I watch most IT/Technical videos at 1.5-2x speed. Especially tutorial style videos. Most creators use a very long and drawn out way of speaking in order to keep the viewer on the same page, but most of the time I know the core concepts already, so I don’t need the super detailed parts only the barebones.
This was a video of a machine treating pomegranate seeds 🤷 don’t ask
But it was filmed in a lot of detail and there was no need to watch the whole thing. The creators should probably have made a highlights video instead.
I don’t know what YouTube does when you increase playback speed, but a lot of people who listen to podcast-type material or lectures will use software that has the ability to time-stretch the playback without changing the pitch. That is, we can often understand people perfectly well speaking more quickly than they actually do.
I imagine that some people are most-likely looking at content of that sort on YouTube.
That’s interesting they can keep the pitch. Thanks
It’s for people who want to skim but not to read.
I would give anything to skim an article rather than sit through a 10 minute video for the one thing I need to know.
Work shit.
That i can see
What do you watch on that speed? Genuine question, not saying it’s not a shitty arbitrary restriction
Not OP but informational podcast/interview type videos that are heavy on talking and long I watch at 2.25x with subtitles on.
Interesting, I do 1.5x for certain podcasts and tabletop like Critical Role, but even at that speed I miss things and lose comprehension (although I am usually multitasking as well)
Makes sense, in other contexts I’d watch at lower speeds (I watch starcraft games sometimes at 1.25x), but for me this is kind of like the video equivalent of skimming an article, actively reading and listening at the same time and not multitasking. I also manually skip around to get to relevant information faster.
I’d also like to mention that I’m able to do this because I use FreeTube, not because I pay for YouTube…
For me personally, until a month ago I had no idea why people would prefer to watch at faster speed.
Then I was assigned 10 hours of training at work, and it was all the worst fucking videos you’ve ever seen, no editing for clarity or brevity, points being repeated ad nausea. Repeating footage. And it’s not like I could skip vast portions of it, I never knew when a little piece of key information would be snuck in which was in the knowledge test.
Finally said to myself fuck this and I put it on 2x. I found it kind of life-changing in that moment and I’m going to consider using faster watch speeds from now on.
Ive experienced that too :) These companies that make training videos for employees, seems like anyone could succeed there. Literally no quality, but thats fine, the manager gets his checkbox checked, all employees trained.
In this case, it was this video
I don’t usually speed it up that much bun in this case, I wanted a ‘time lapse’ stile skim of the video
$(‘video’).playbackRate = 3;
Just gonna leave this here (for desktop at least): https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
