On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
* I rarely watch videos downloaded in real time, but prefer to download them in advance. This enables me to use the VLC player to _speed up_ the video during boring parts -- sometimes to 2X the normal rate. The VLC player is capable of speeding up the audio without affecting the pitch; the speaker doesn't sound like he/she is breathing helium.
This is a feature on Quicktime and YouTube's player as well, and I always speed up speakers to 1.5x (or 1.7x if the player allows it; 2x is too much for me). I prefer text to video, simply because of the speed; if there's a really interesting video and the player (like Vimeo's) doesn't let me speed it up, I'll download it and use the fast playback on VNC. If there's a talk on Vimeo that isn't interesting enough to justify having to download it, I just won't watch it. I can't listen to audiobooks for the same reason: it's like going back to a 56k modem after having fiber. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com