$ yt-dlp <URL>
Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature
Submitted 22 hours ago by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
apftwb@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I am not one for fear the terminal, but do people actually use this to browse YT? What does this workflow look like? Searching video URLs, manually copying them into this cli, and then opening the downloaded file?
Danitos@reddthat.com 22 hours ago
three@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
timestatic@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Use FreeTube and Tubular lmao
fubarx@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I can barely follow and absorb anything at 1.5-2x.
Beyond that, more power to you.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 hours ago
Yeah, this change has no practical effect on me. But removing features is concerning nonetheless.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
Lol nope, out of principle I will never pay for this even if I didn’t already hate Google.
It feels so condescending to the user, so unconcerned with their agency that I could never bring myself to support this choice with even a tiny amount of money.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
100% agree. The problem is that there are more and more features that get tugged behind the subscription paywall
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 18 hours ago
Same here. I’m sick of seeing people say stuff like “just pay for Premium bro”. Stfu. That’s like paying the mafia for “protection” from them. YouTube created these problems and now I have to pay them to fix it? Fuck no.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Download it and play it however you want in VLC.
degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 19 hours ago
It was never a free feature; they used to only allow up to 2X speed. Not that that justifies it at all of course.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
What do you watch on that speed? Genuine question, not saying it’s not a shitty arbitrary restriction
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
In this case, it was this video
I don’t usually speed it up that much bun in this case, I wanted a ‘time lapse’ stile skim of the video
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Not OP but informational podcast/interview type videos that are heavy on talking and long I watch at 2.25x with subtitles on.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Interesting, I do 1.5x for certain podcasts and tabletop like Critical Role, but even at that speed I miss things and lose comprehension (although I am usually multitasking as well)
londos@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
$(‘video’).playbackRate = 3;
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Been like this for awhile now.
For android use revanced or morphe
For browser use firefox and video speed controller
tal@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
You can use
yt-dlpto download it and play it in whatever movie player you want that supports variable speeds, unless and until YouTube cracks down on downloading.cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
I use jdownloader2. I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl. I’m not sure.
I was curious so I downloaded the Mac version of yt-dlp (as I am on Mac), couldn’t get it to run. And I’m comfortable with the command line.
YouTube kinda is cracking down on downloading though. If a video is marked as adult (you need to sign in to view it), it can’t be downloaded. A lot of “official videos” (like trailers from the studio) can’t be downloaded. Subtitles can’t be downloaded. That’s in jd2. Not sure about yt-dlp.
tal@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
I think it uses yt-dl on the backend though? Like the original yt-dl.
You’re probably thinking of
youtube-dl. I’d guess that it most-likely used that at one point, but probably switched toyt-dlpwhen YouTube started throttling single-stream downloads.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I am at the point where you tube is now a rare choice. I am tired of the stupid games and adblock and trying to not log in.
Fuck it, I can do without.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Why and what type of videos are you watching at 2x speed?
Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Idk what to tell you, a lot of youtubers talk pretty fuckin slow
deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Listening to people talk faster gives me anxiety. It’s the closest thing (I guess) to feeling like I have ADHD. Like I’ve done a bunch of speed but without any of the dopaminergic effects.
I don’t know how anybody does it to be quite honest. Even putting a podcast on 1.25x is too much.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
I watch basically everything that isn’t music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
That’s what I wanted to know. Until I realised I don’t care how people watch YouTube and that it’s more annoying to me that Google is paywalling something that costs them nothing to implement.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
I watch most IT/Technical videos at 1.5-2x speed. Especially tutorial style videos. Most creators use a very long and drawn out way of speaking in order to keep the viewer on the same page, but most of the time I know the core concepts already, so I don’t need the super detailed parts only the barebones.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
This was a video of a machine treating pomegranate seeds 🤷 don’t ask
But it was filmed in a lot of detail and there was no need to watch the whole thing. The creators should probably have made a highlights video instead.
yesman@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It’s for people who want to skim but not to read.
underisk@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
I would give anything to skim an article rather than sit through a 10 minute video for the one thing I need to know.
tal@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
I don’t know what YouTube does when you increase playback speed, but a lot of people who listen to podcast-type material or lectures will use software that has the ability to time-stretch the playback without changing the pitch. That is, we can often understand people perfectly well speaking more quickly than they actually do.
I imagine that some people are most-likely looking at content of that sort on YouTube.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Work shit.
LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Just gonna leave this here (for desktop at least): github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
stepan@lemmy.cafe 21 hours ago
Use Revanced if you’re on android
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 15 hours ago
I highly recommend the extension “Enhancer for YouTube” by Max RF, it adds a shit Tom of qol features
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
This is only the beginning…
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
The beginning‽ They’ve been up to shit like this for years!
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Man, everything about the US is getting worse. Enshitification Nation.
foggy@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Not if you know JavaScript…
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Lots of ways around this, even on locked down iOS/iPadOS
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Like…?
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I use a safari plugin called Wipr. There’s another I’m aware of called Vinegar
overat8@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Not sure if this still works but, the YouTube version I had, mobile YouTube vanced, there’s a loophole to bypass the “premium 2x speed”. It basically getting to video settings as quickly as possible.
These steps work on the YouTube vanced app on android. I don’t know what versions you’re on so it may not work.
When you open a video immediately open the video settings then click your playback settings, then select the 2x speed. On android, YouTube video buffer briefly before loading up at the very beginning, and if you successfully manage to click the playback settings it should load the old YouTube playback settings where the it listed the different speed in a column. If not, as in you were too slow to open the video settings, you can always try again. You just have to close the video and open it again using YouTube history, and again try getting to the video playback settings asap.