TIL that holding a left mouse button pressed over a youtube video, speeds it up x2 until you release the button
Is this a common knowledge? Is this an old feature? I accidentally found about it few days ago.
Syndicated from the fediverse. Read and engage on the original instance.
View original on discuss.tchncs.deView original on discuss.tchncs.de
16 replies
Also, if you hit the “
?” key, it will show you over two dozen keyboard shortcuts.Left+? or something else?
You can also use the spacebar.
No idea how long it's been a feature, I only found it recently.
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.
It does if you tap it, but holding down speeds up the video.
Oh, nice. Ty for the tip.
I found out because sometimes my finger will involuntarily press down without me noticing. Lol
Now that's a pro tip! Thanks!
This is pretty new. They gave me a popup when they added it a couple 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.
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.
Swiping left/right to seek only works if the video is paused apparently
Oh! Thank you!
Is there any way to speed it up on a Roku device?
The Enhancer for YouTube extension add some nice features as well.
Yeah, scrolling over video speed icon is really nice.