Video Speed Control with Keyboard

Nissan Ahmed
2020-03-24T01:00:50Z

Controls any HTML5 video playback speed by pressing shortcut keys. See source code comment for the shortcut keymap.

Video Speed Control with Keyboard

Userscript for controlling any HTML5 video playback speed using these following shortcut keys:

Key | Speed
, | -0.5x
. | +0.5x
; | 1x
' | 2.5x
[ | 2x
] | 1.75x

Requirement

Any userscript manager, such as:

Violentmonkey (Recommended)

Greasemonkey

Tampermonkey

AdGuard Userscripts (Windows and macOS)

AdGuard for Android (Settings > Extensions > New extension)

Kiwi Browser on Android (Supports Chrome desktop extensions)

Installation

Use any of these following links:

Greasy Fork (Recommended)

Direct link

Version History

3.1

Now retains the latest speed information of the player instead of always resetting to the default speed.

3.0

No longer changes speed when the keypress is coming from any text editing field.

2.0

Changed to a much more robust event-based mechanism. Now it works reliably on every website.

1.0

Initial implementation.

Information

Author: Nissan Ahmed (@ni554n)

Project: Homepage / Support

License: MIT

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