{"id":813881,"date":"2024-12-22T00:28:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T06:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/youtube-on-the-web-gets-custom-playback-speed-controls\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T00:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T06:28:50","slug":"youtube-on-the-web-gets-custom-playback-speed-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/youtube-on-the-web-gets-custom-playback-speed-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube on the web gets \u2018Custom\u2019 playback speed controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/10\/YouTube-Android-TV-logo-3.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1600\" alt  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"><\/figure>\n<p>Following Android and iOS <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/11\/07\/youtube-playback-speed-redesign\/\">last month<\/a>, the YouTube website now offers fine-tunable (\u201cCustom\u201d) playback speed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the YouTube video player > settings gear > Playback speed menu, \u201cCustom\u201d is now the first time. You can adjust in .05x increments from .25 to 2.00 thanks to a new slider.\u00a0Your choice persists across videos watched during a YouTube session.<\/p>\n<p>These fine-grained controls match what\u2019s available on Android and iOS, with the same slider design leveraged. The past list of increments remain underneath: 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, Normal, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, and 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>This menu now looks a bit busy with this change, but it works and is familiar enough.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/10\/22\/material-you-video-player\/\">Here\u2019s what a Material You video player (for Google Drive) looks like\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"h-more-on-youtube\">More on YouTube:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/12\/12\/youtube-music-speed-dial-pin\/\">YouTube Music adding \u2018Pin to Speed dial\u2019 customization on Android, iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/12\/12\/youtube-tv-82-99\/\">YouTube TV getting $10 price increase to $82.99 in January 2025<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/author\/technacity\/\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/12\/09\/youtube-translucent-bottom-bar\/\">YouTube app rolling out translucent bottom bar on Android, iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/12\/08\/youtube-music-timestamp-sharing\/\">YouTube Music adds timestamp sharing, useful for podcasts<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/author\/technacity\/\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMMqA-Qow-c_gAg?hl=en-US&#038;gl=US&#038;ceid=US:en\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<em>Add 9to5Google to your Google News feed.<\/em>\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/12\/12\/youtube-custom-playback-speed\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Android and iOS last month, the YouTube website now offers fine-tunable (\u201cCustom\u201d) playback speed.\u00a0 In the YouTube video player > settings gear > Playback speed menu, \u201cCustom\u201d is now the first time. You can adjust in .05x increments from .25 to 2.00 thanks to a new slider.\u00a0Your choice persists across videos watched during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":813882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3921,49,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-813881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-custom","8":"category-youtube","9":"category-youtube-videos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}