Speed up videos on the web
If the website uses the <video> tag from HTML5, simply open a console in the browser and run one
of the following commands:
document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 2.5;
document.querySelectorAll("video")[0].playbackRate = 3.0;
Although sites like YouTube and Netflix already have buttons to change the playback rate to predefined values, with this command, you can use any speed.
In Firefox, the command to open a console in the Web Developer Tools is Ctrl+Shift+K.
There are also browser add-ons that do the same thing.
E.g.: Video Speed Controller for
Firefox.
I’m a Brazilian computer engineer based in Germany, passionate about tech, science, photography, and languages.
I’ve been programming for about two decades already, exploring everything from mobile apps and web development to machine learning. These days I focus on cloud SRE and data engineering.
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