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Comment by mixmastamyk | Hacker News Reader

I recommend downloading with youtube-dl etc. and watching in VLC at 1.5x etc. Only way to get thru so many great videos in a reasonable time.

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FYI, VLC accepts YouTube links in File > Open Network..., so you don't even have to download them.

Very interesting... though there doesn't seem to be much buffer. Running at 1.5x I get to the end of the buffer often and it doesn't stream when it is paused. :( Back to downloading.

I wrote a simple package that wraps youtube-dl so I download talks to my iphone and watch on my commute: https://github.com/codeinthehole/pyvideo2quicktime

just enable html5 player and you can choose 1.5 on youtube. Or, if it too fast (depending on the speaker), just do:

  document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.3

I believe I use html5 w/youtube, though not easy to tell. Is this javascript the only interface?

If you own a Roku and install Twonky media server, you can beam (watch) the videos on your flat screen, from your smartphone.

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