Lean in and speed up your video learning with handy shortcuts to accelerate, slow-down, and rewind your video via your keyboard.
HTML5 video provides a native API to accelerate playback of any video. The problem is, many players either hide, or limit this functionality. For best results playback speed adjustments should be easy and frequent to match the pace and content being covered: we don't read at a fixed speed, and similarly, we need an easy way to accelerate the video, slow it down, and quickly rewind the last point to listen to it a few more times.
Once the extension is installed simply navigate to any page that offers HTML5 video, and you'll see a speed indicator in top left corner. Hover over the indicator to reveal the controls to accelerate, slowdown, or rewind the video (10 seconds + lowers playback speed). Or, even better, simply use your keyboard:
- a - will rewind video 10s and lower playback speed.
- s - will lower playback speed.
- d - will accelerate playback speed.
