Easy way to change youtube video playback speed

Latest Version

Version

1.6.1

Update

July 29, 2024

Size

179KiB

Developer

Custom Youtube Playback Speed Extension

Chrome extension that enables changing YouTube video playback speed from 0 to 10 with a custom step.

The controls are integrated with the YouTube player in the form of:
- a draggable bar below the quality option in the player settings,
- numeric input
- by detecting pressed keys provided by the user (by default '-' or 'a' to subtract and '+' or 'd' to add).

New dynamic playback speed control in version 1.6.0!

The feature of dynamic video playback speed enables the playback speed to begin at a specified rate and then gradually increase until it reaches the desired rate at the specified duration percentage.

It has to be enabled in a settings!

Source code: https://github.com/MarekNowak250/Change-youtube-playback-speed-chrome-extension

Have any improvement suggestion? You can create an issue here:
https://github.com/MarekNowak250/Change-youtube-playback-speed-chrome-extension/issues

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Custom Youtube Playback Speed", "description": "Easy way to change youtube video playback speed", "version": "1.6.1", "short_name": "YTSpeed", "author": "Krzaku", "background": { "service_worker": "background.js" }, "permissions": ["storage"], "action": { "default_popup": "index.html", "default_title": "Custom yt playback speed settings" }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["https://www.youtube.com/*"], "js": ["contentScript.js"], "run_at": "document_end" } ], "web_accessible_resources": [ { "resources": ["index.js"], "matches": ["https://www.youtube.com/*"] } ], "icons": { "16": "/icons/extension_icon16.png", "32": "/icons/extension_icon32.png", "48": "/icons/extension_icon48.png", "128": "/icons/extension_icon128.png" }}

Download CRX(179KiB)

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User reviews

Ran Ro (ID: 0000001ab6f7ee3c) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 10/31/2023 dynamic playback speed video youtube chrome extension Request new feature for Video Speed Controller 1- set desired speed e.g. x3 2- select starting speed e.g. x1.5 3- % of video passed until desired speed is reach e.g. 60% The video begins at x1.5 and increases gradually as a function of time based on the duration of the video until it reaches 60% therein it will reaches x3 speed. e.g. at 60% of elapsed video duration it will be playbackRate = x1.5 + (x3 - x1.5) * (currentTime / duration) / 0.6 This formula means that the playback rate will start at x1.5 and increase linearly as a function of the current time divided by the duration of the video until it reaches 60% of the duration, where it will reach x3.

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Custom Youtube Playback Speed