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HTML5 video speed controller (for Firefox). WebExtensions port of Video Speed Controller Chrome extension.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2020-04-13 · latest 2025-06-25

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  1. https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed has been a wonderful addition for me.
    comment by dpcx · 2025-06-25 · in OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
  2. …to get fine-grained video speed control, without a 2x speed cap (which often isn't fast enough) https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed It has served me well for years and works on YT ads as well as other sites with similar players
    comment by bonchicbongenre · 2023-11-24 · in YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
  3. …it. Unfortunately I don't have a solution for anything on the phone :/ The one I use for desktop is https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
    comment by nyxtom · 2022-10-09 · in Learn Exponentially
  4. Here's the fork that added Firefox support ( https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed , https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/ ), and it's saved me so much time it's absolutely ridiculous at this point.
    comment by thegeekpirate · 2022-07-31 · in I miss the programmable web (2021)
  5. I'm using https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed This extension adds keyboard shortcuts as well as a UI to all <video> elements (YT and other sites). I have 'G' set playback rate to 2.2x.
    comment by wjdp · 2021-12-09 · in How I spend less time on YouTube
  6. …Controller is one, works on HTML5 Video (including YouTube, but not limited to it). For FireFox: https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed I think, forked from Chrome: https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed
    comment by jodrellblank · 2021-03-01 · in Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed
  7. …map keyboard shortcuts to playback speed control over any HTML5 video. It works amazingly well. [0] https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
    comment by jmiskovic · 2021-01-27 · in Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952)
  8. https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
    comment by edjrage · 2020-10-26 · in Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code
  9. You can use this extension to change speed of all HTML5 videos: https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
    comment by Xeanort · 2020-04-13 · in How to Speak (2018) [video]