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27 November 2015

They are finally catching up


How long have I been talking about wanting a player that had a variable speed playback option?  A long, long time.  I have found a few since then and have been able to listen to audio-books and podcasts much faster covering more material and exploring new venues and I have been loving it.

I have been wanting the same thing for video and have found it on occasion with the windows media player but you had to download the file and even then it was hit and miss if it would work or not.  Sometimes the picture would work but the sound was gone, sometimes the sound would work but the video was stuttering.  And since it is hard to download a YouTube video there was little chance of having it work there.

But today I stumbled on a training video on a google site and the setting icon which is usually just used to set the resolution also had a place to adjust the speed of the playback.  I got so excited I just had to come over and share the news.

I don't know if this is for all YouTube videos or not but my fingers are crossed.  There are a lot of good videos out there with a lot of great knowledge to be had but there are a lot of times I wish the presenter could just speed it up a little and now maybe they can just for me.  I really can't wait to see if this trend is a reality for all or even just for some buy I am psyched to try it out.

Now I wonder if the same playback option will start to show up in other video places.

Whoever got this to work, high fives, mega kudos and just plain way to go.  THANKS.

This is Ed Nef with a view from the Farrwest.