How to write a program to speed up youtube playback
I want to watch videos from YouTube at a faster playback rate. A while back I asked if there is a utility that can speed up video playback. The only thing that was mentioned was some closed source project for Windows. I'm not a fan of either Windows or closed source.
Another answer mentioned that you can download videos from YouTube and play them back. Unfortunately, this no longer seems to work. I tried several Firefox addons and they all fail to download. So, now I think I need to build something myself. I see two options:
- Create an addon to Firefox that allows me to change the playback speed of the video as it is playing.
- Find an open source code alternative to Adobe's flash player and update the source code to have a variable rate of playback of sound and video.
I'm not sure if either option can give me the control that I want. I don开发者_StackOverflow't have a lot of experience with flash and was hoping someone more experienced could give advice on where to start.
I think you won't really find a standard only-flash solution. Though I've seen something like this for mp3, written in flash, for changing the speed. It worked pretty well, but I think this can't be done with a NetStream object - the one used for streaming videos.
It doesn't have such properties, like speed
or fastforward
. The only way to change the playback is using the seek
method, but I think it would give a terrible result - if it would work at all.
So from a flash point of view, it doesn't look like to be realistic.
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