YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. It is a fact that YouTube is one of the most popular video website that you can find lots of videos in there. I love NBA basketball and I am able to watch a lot of free video clips about Michael Jordan. My friend loves basketball too and he learned a lot of tips on how to be a better basketball player.
What if you saw a dance video in YouTube that you really like and want to learn the moves? What if you want to learn a guitar tab but wasn’t able to see what was being played by the agile fingers of the guitarist? If it is a tutorial video, they’ll definitely show you in slow motion on how to do it. If not, to play the videos in slow motion, we’ll have to download the FLV video to our computer, convert it to AVI file and play it in slow motion using our favorite media player. This is what most of the forums and websites that will advice you to do since they said that we can’t slow down YouTube videos when streaming them from YouTube. Well they are wrong… I just found a plug-in that can easily slow down or speed up flash videos that is on YouTube, Fox News Video, CNN Video, ABC News Video, ESPN Video and etc directly from your web browser.
The Enounce MySpeed Plug-In for YouTube allows you to change the playback speed of YouTube and other flash videos without changing the pitch of the audio. Basically, the person speaking won’t sound like a chipmunk. With MySpeed you can watch more videos in less time with speed-up, understand and transcribe complex material with slow-down, increase learning and retention.
All you need to do is to download the software, watch a video on YouTube or any other video sites that uses Flash, and move the slider to change the playback speed. 1.0 is the normal speed. Lowering the value by sliding backwards will slow down a video and vice versa.
MySpeed Plug-In for Flash will stay in system tray and if it detects any flash videos in supported web browser, the slider will automatically appear. MySpeed.exe process only takes up 6MB from memory and it doesn’t slow the system down. The latest version Beta 2.10 adds Flash 10 support.
MySpeed Plug-In for Flash is totally FREE and works only on Windows XP or Vista operating system. Firefox 2 or 3, Internet Explorer 6 or 7 is fully supported. As for Internet Explorer 8, Opera 9.62 and Google Chrome, it is not supported. Enounce MySpeed Control titlebar will tell that No Flash Video Playing…
Thanks to xje4bv for sharing this nice tool in forum!
[ Download MySpeed Plug-In for YouTube ]
Uh-oh…MySpeed is no longer working with most (all?) YouTube vids because they have switched from Flash to HTML5. Anyone have a workaround for this?
The above-mentioned youtubeSLOW does not work well for me…unbearably choppy sound..
For youtube videos you can just add SLOW in front of youtube in the url, and you will be redirected to a page that enables you to slow down youtube videos. :) so youtube.com/watch?v=VY9g7koP8yQ becomes youtubeSLOW.com/watch?v=VY9g7koP8yQ and you’ll be redirected to the slowdown page :)
An alternative is a tool called EmbedPlus (embedplus.com). Basically, it allows you to add slow motion and other DVD-like controls to your video embeds. There are other features you might find useful if you check out the homepage. Anyhow, it’s free and requires no downloading.
This program is NOT free as stated. There is a 30 day free trial then they want $30 for a limited edition or $90 for the premium edition.
The $30 edition is limited to stuff you watch on YouTube. if you’re looking to slow down guitar stuff in particular, Slow-Mo Director at $50 may be worth a look at:
slomodirector.com/
If you’re thinking of parting with your hard-earned to enable this “freeware”, don’t forget that variable speed will be a standard feature in YouTube using HTML5 as seen here:
lifehacker.com/5491852/enable-variable-speed-playback-in-youtube
Yet another software you might mention is Video Surgeon. This software has the ability to change the speed of the playback, zoom-in and to set loop points so you can play a section repeatedly. It also automatically detects the URL’s of videos playing on Youtube and thousands of other sites and helps you download them. A FREE, four hour, fully functional demo can be found at videosurgeon.net
NO LONGER FREE!
The scumbags put it out as freeware temporarily as a publicity gimmick.
salam
i daily use to watch videos on youtube but from last day it is working very slow please help me out of this difficulty i am using window xp sp3
Does this work for Apples too? I know nothing about computers!
hi kenapa ga coba hold-tube.com…
skr sudah dukung banyak video sites buat download video dan selain itu kita bisa nonton full veoh video di hold-tube.com..
salam
Clicked this link in your article, doesn’t work.
[ Download MySpeed Plug-In for YouTube ]
Can you tell me how to download MySpeed Plug-In?
Thanks!
MJ
I found out about this soft sometime ago and I tried and it worked but then I lost the file and I couldnt remember or how to find it back. Thanks for this posting Raymond.
Lol sorry – another language…
Wow, very good tip, thanks Brother.
Wow, muito bom, obrigado Tuga.
Just an update, I’ve tried it with Internet Explorer 8, Opera, Safari and Chrome and seems to work fine with all.
hi, found your website through technically personal.
great tip especially for youtube fanatics!
hi Raymond thanks a like for the info, keep it up
@Raymond
As I have low bandwidth this might help me to view you tube videos faster ,what’s your opinion about speedbit video accelerator for you tube.
Yes Albin, MySpeed Plug-In for YouTube works on Firefox 3.1 Beta 1.
Does it work with firebox 3.1 Beta 1?
I like basketball too (both playing and watching). My favourite team is the Toronto Raptors because I live in Toronto. Others are Cleveland, Miami, and Boston.
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Thanks for the great program.
Sweet, useful for guitar videos.
know what its a cool software but i want to tell u guys that FLV videos can be playes in GOM player
i got it working now.
this is going to help me big time as i always download the movie and watch but now it all taken care of…
Haha, imagine my surprise upon seeing this at the blog. Anyway, all credit goes to the creator of this plug-in for creating this wonderful app.
Hello Raymond,
Sounds like a neat little tool. It will defiantly help me when I need to analyze a video. Speaking of videos, if you or anyone else needs to refer back to a video, it’d be pretty pointless to re-download it. Instead, you can download the video quite easily. Download Youtube Videos in one click will show you how to do that.
Best regards,
John
thanks raymond…dowmloaded,installed and working fine with me….very handy for me.
Link works on my side.
Link not working
I dont have muc use for this software, but its definitely fun and cool.
nice find raymond.