{"id":9710,"date":"2022-09-29T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9710"},"modified":"2022-09-29T20:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T03:00:41","slug":"video-speed-controller-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/29\/video-speed-controller-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Speed Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might enjoy the Video Speed Controller Chrome extension.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/video-speed-controller\/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk\">Get it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I use it when I&#8217;m trying to find the good part of a video: tap &#8220;Jump 10 seconds forward&#8221; or &#8220;jump 10 seconds back&#8221; a few times! Or when Hulu forces me to watch ads, I fast forward through them at 16x speed. And of course, when I&#8217;m watching a boring video, I&#8217;ll turn up the speed so I can &#8220;watch faster&#8221;. I&#8217;ll turn it to 1.2x speed when I&#8217;m trying to watch a slow drama that needs to kick it up, or 2.5x speed for poorly cut Youtube videos!<\/p>\n<p>These settings work very well for me:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/speed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/speed-288x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/speed-288x600.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/speed-144x300.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/speed-58x120.jpg 58w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/speed-24x50.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/speed.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, since no one should ever fully trust a free extension to not snoop on you, I set it to only run when I click on the icon, like below:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/on-click.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/on-click-600x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/on-click-600x505.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/on-click-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/on-click-120x101.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/on-click-50x42.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/on-click.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might enjoy the Video Speed Controller Chrome extension. Get it here. I use it when I&#8217;m trying to find the good part of a video: tap &#8220;Jump 10 seconds forward&#8221; or &#8220;jump 10 seconds back&#8221; a few times! Or when Hulu forces me to watch ads, I fast forward through them at 16x speed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9713,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710\/revisions\/9713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}