Variable Speed for YouTube Videos
If you’ve opted in to YouTube’s HTML5 experiment, the videos will play in your own browser’s player, instead of in an Adobe Flash player. This was discussed in the Forum a few weeks ago.
YouTube can serve HTML5 videos if you have an HTML5-capable browser with the h.264 video codec (i.e. Chrome but not Chromium, Safari v4+, or IE with Google Chrome Frame). Videos containing ads continue to use the Flash player.
YouTube has implemented a variable speed control for their HTML5 videos. Next to the play/pause button is a small arrow. When clicked, it opens up a panel containing a slider and two icons: a hare and a tortoise.
As you can probably guess, moving the slider towards the hare makes videos play faster, and moving the slider towards the tortoise makes them play slower.
The pitch of the sound is compensated, so that the audio doesn’t become squeaky at hi [...]
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Date : 2010-03-08 14:16:31
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