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Posted by Asia Chan
Asia Chan
11,007 Points

Speed adjustment on videos

Hi, first off, kudos on the site. Really enjoying it so far. :-)

I'd just like to suggest a feature on your videos? They're really well-made, although would it be possible to include a speed option? Like have them play at 1.5x, 2x speed and so on. It's a good feature on some tutorial sites I've visited (Coursera). Hope you take this into consideration! Thanks a bunch! :-)

11 Answers

Faye Bridge
Faye Bridge
4,879 Points
Faye Bridge
Faye Bridge
4,879 Points

Hey Asia! Great to hear you're enjoying learning with Treehouse! Thank you for your suggestion, we'll pass it along to our App Team. :)

Evan Moore
Evan Moore
11,814 Points

Hi Faye Bridge , What's the status of this?

Matthias Busch
Matthias Busch
4,074 Points
Matthias Busch
Matthias Busch
4,074 Points

I agree with Asia this would be a great feature.

Asia Chan
Asia Chan
11,007 Points
Asia Chan
Asia Chan
11,007 Points

Thanks Faye and the Treehouse App Team! Really appreciate it :)

Evan Moore
Evan Moore
11,814 Points
Evan Moore
Evan Moore
11,814 Points

This feature would be greatly appreciated.

David Cohen
David Cohen
1,299 Points
David Cohen
David Cohen
1,299 Points

One workaround for this is to click on the video's download link, copy the URL, and opening it as a network location in vlc. You can do this with ctrl+n and copying the URL, or just by selecting the URL in the browser and dragging onto the VLC window.

(You can't do this by right-clicking on the download link, though, because it uses a CDN.)

Asia Chan
Asia Chan
11,007 Points

Cool! Thanks David, appreciate the workaround :)

Marina Ferreira
Marina Ferreira
6,276 Points
Marina Ferreira
Marina Ferreira
6,276 Points

This is really necessary!!!

Murphy Randle
Murphy Randle
1,030 Points
Murphy Randle
Murphy Randle
1,030 Points

++++++! Big time help.

Evan Moore
Evan Moore
11,814 Points
Evan Moore
Evan Moore
11,814 Points

I would love to see this feature. I use it everywhere else (coursera, udacity, youtube, podcasts), and it is greatly missed here on Treehouse.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

It's been a while, but this feature has finally been added. You can now watch a video at 1.5x & 2x speed.

speed control

Asia Chan
Asia Chan
11,007 Points

Oh wow! Thank you so much! Much appreciated :D

Justin Burkard
Justin Burkard
5,558 Points
Justin Burkard
Justin Burkard
5,558 Points

I see the option to speed up videos on my iPad, but it's missing when I use Chrome/Firefox on my computer. Anyone else having this issue? Being able to watch videos at 1.5x is awesome for me, just stinks being limited to my iPad.

Thanks in advance for the help!

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Justin Burkard -

This is what I see when I watch a video on chrome under Windows 7

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What do you see?

Fernwood Fitness
PLUS
Fernwood Fitness
Courses Plus Student 6,863 Points
Fernwood Fitness
Fernwood Fitness
Courses Plus Student 6,863 Points

HI guys,

There seems to be some kind of bug on the speed controls on the iPad. For some reason the touch event is triggering and because of this all my videos are sped up and it's really annoying to watch. Have tried clearing my cache, cookies, closing down Safari but issue remains.

Any ideas?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

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