Ability to speed up playback

Under the 'Playback' option is a 1.5x and 2x option. Is it not working?

I'm afraid it's not working -- I try to set it... the option highlights and "sticks", but the video always plays at 1x speed

I have the same problem when I click on the speed options.

Only works for me in IPad, but with Google Chrome last version it doesn't work.

Ah - it used to. I have the memory of JW as a chipmunk to prove it :). Hopefully he picks up on this thread and corrects it.

Is there any news on this? I still don't get it to work on my Chrome... It does work on Shitnet Explorer, though.

@FireCoding I have that issue if I start the playback AFTER changing the speed, so I start the video playing, then pause it, then select 1.5X or 2X, then start the video, and then go full screen. I have also noticed that you really have to make sure that you are clicking on the text for the 1.5X or 2X as the area around the text will trigger a hover, but does not really change the speed.

@jimmy.puckett Sorry, did not solve anything. It just plays at normal speed no matter what. My workaround is simply to download and playback in VLC Player, which I now prefer since I can skip around easily with keyboard shortcuts. So no worries.

It works for me on Chrome. Ideally I would be able to set this as a profile setting so that when I went to the next video I wouldn't have to reset it again and again.

This feature doesn't work for me on chrome. I can set it to 2x, but it doesn't change anything.

I just noticed the playback speed and it's not working for me on Chrome either. The option sticks, but no chipmunk voice :)

@dhersam - Are you using the OSX or Windows version of Chrome?

I am using OSX.

doesn't work for me too. I am on windows 7 64bit, and tried with Opera, Chrome, Safary and firefox. but no luck. :(

I'm on W8 and it isn't working here on my Chrome either...

I'm on OSX and chrome, and it DOES work for me.

This particular one has confused me for a while. It works everywhere for me. Never had a problem with it. But, for some people, it doesn't. Can't figure out why...

Yeah not sure, works for me on Chrome OS X but not on Chrome Windows.

How does it speed it up? It's a full HTML5 player right?

Tried in Chrome, Firefox, and IE and none of them make it work on Windows 7

I'm using chrome on Linux and it works fine. Hilariously funny when you set Jeffrey to 1/2 speed. He sounds like it is 5 in the morning and he is on drugs :o)

If you start the video and then change the speed you sometimes have to pause the video and then start it again for the speed setting to take effect. Have you tried that?

Doesn't have an effect on Chrome Windows, not that I use the speed functionality ;)

@JeffreyWay I'm on Windows 64-bit as well. I looked into it a little bit more, and it does work partially. If I get the video from the DOM, then set the speed with the dropdown, the playbackRate property is updated. And if I play the video from the Javascript console, it plays at the faster playbackRate. But if I click on the video to play it, I get 1x speed.

video = document.getElementById('laracasts-video');
video.playbackRate = 1.5;
video.play();

Also, when I clicked on the video to pause when it was already playing, instead of pausing the playback, it started a new playback at 1x speed.

I used video.pause() to stop the speedy version. It seems that, at least in Chrome on Windows, clicking on the video is not calling the play() method.

Works fine for me, OSX latest Chrome... Does not work on my Note Pro latest Chrome

Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit. Not working on:

• IE • Firefox • Chrome

:(

Windows 8.1 64 bit. Not working on Chrome but is working fine with Firefox...

Works on Chrome for me however I did need to turn off flash as it seems to default to the flash player (which is jarring as hell). There is probably an extension to turn off flash per site basis but to be honest I personally just disable it entirely under chrome://plugins

@TomCaserta Thanks for the tip, that worked for me too, Chrome on Windows 7.

Are they keyboard shortcuts to change the playspeed?