this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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Is this a common knowledge? Is this an old feature? I accidentally found about it few days ago.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, if you hit the “?” key, it will show you over two dozen keyboard shortcuts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Left+? or something else?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You can also use the spacebar.

No idea how long it's been a feature, I only found it recently.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait, didn't spacebar pause the video for awhile? I haven't used desktop YouTube in a hot minute, so I might be completely misremembering or conflating it with a VLC hotkey.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

It does if you tap it, but holding down speeds up the video.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Oh, nice. Ty for the tip.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I found out because sometimes my finger will involuntarily press down without me noticing. Lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Now that's a pro tip! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I watch an unhealthy amount of YouTube and never knew this. Nifty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

This is awesome! I'm often trying to reassemble old guns I get on the cheap to refurbish, and being mechanically challenged, I need to speed through the bits I don't need and go over and over the fine details. Be helpful for the same reason when working on my car.

[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Enhancer for YouTube extension add some nice features as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, scrolling over video speed icon is really nice.

[–] sjmarf 3 points 8 months ago

This is pretty new. They gave me a popup when they added it a couple months ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Is there any way to speed it up on a Roku device?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same with the Android app. It used to let you swipe left and right to move backward and forward in the video, but now it just does the 2x speed thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Swiping left/right to seek only works if the video is paused apparently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh! Thank you!

[–] JohnDClay 1 points 8 months ago

I watch on 2x by default anyway, I wish it would go 2x the current speed. I'll look for an extension later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I have several JavaScript commands in a bookmark folder that speed up videos and I've noticed that almost every video is better at 1.1x speed (I have like a dozen different speeds for slower and faster set up), like it sounds normal. I'm convinced that all the people putting out 20+ minute videos are slowing them down ever so slightly to make them longer. Pair this with Sponsorblock and you can cut huge amounts of pointless time out of videos.