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Re:Sorry, You Can’t Speed Read by el_isma on Saturday April 16, 2016 @05:53PM (#11512417)
Related: There's a plugin for chrome that lets you speed up all html5 videos. I usually watch youtube at at least 1.5x. The plugin is better than the youtube settings because it lets you set the speed on small increments.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...

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Re:Sorry, You Can’t Speed Read by jholman on Sunday April 17, 2016 @01:54AM (#11513648)
Plugin schmugin. Try my bookmarklet:

javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video%22).playbackRate=parseFloat(prompt(%22Set%20the%20playback%20rate%22))}();

Works on all HTML5 video that's not inside an iframe or otherwise inaccessible to the page-level DOM.

Only tested on FF for Windows and Linux, but it's just vanilla JS.

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