Play videos slower

Who ever after a Youtube video tutorial z. B. in the home improvement sector for instructions such. B. laminate, patch a bicycle tube or pottery seeks a vase, often comes up against its limits or that of the video, because this is often played too fast for laymen.

The frustration of a too fast presentation in videos can be remedied by lowering the speed of the video.

Here are some ways to play a video on the computer or on a mobile device slower (the individual steps please refer to the explanatory texts to the pictures? To?).


1) Videos on the computer at Youtube call and play

2) Watch videos on the mobile device on Youtube and play

3) Play videos on the computer in the VLC media player


Behind the term "VLC"hides itself for each free of charge downloadable media player, more exactly a software, with whose help one can play music and videos quite unproblematically among other things.This media player is preinstalled on many computers - no matter whether it under Linux, Windows or Mac The software also runs on mobile devices on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.Of course, there are also other media players ..., but I appreciate this here, because it is very comfortable.

But now to the question of how to change the speed here. The video must be downloaded in any case and then opened with the VLC media player. With the help of this software, you can achieve a change in speed with just one touch of a button. For details, see the text below the pictures.

4) Play videos on a mobile device in the VLC media player


Explanations to the pictures

1) Videos on the computer at Youtube call and play: pictures 1-4

Picture 1: Under each video to be played there is a bar that contains a block of characters on the left and on the right edge. The right block? Starts? with a symbol that resembles a gear. If you place the cursor on it, the term "Settings" will appear above it as an explanation. Here you can call and change the different settings for the video to be played.

Here you can call and change the different settings for the video to be played.

Picture 2: If you then click with the left mouse button on the gear symbol, a small window opens, in which among themselves the ranges "Autoplay", "speed" and "quality" are listed. Interesting in this tip is the middle term, "speed": further to the right, the speed "standard" is preset at the same height, ie. H. the imagined and spoken is recited at "normal" tempo, just at the original tempo in which we do something and / or speak to explain it.

Areas: Autoplay, Speed ​​and Quality.

Picture 3: If you move the cursor to this middle "line" (do not click), it will be grayed out slightly, ie. H. The system recognizes that you want to change this.

The system recognizes that you want to change something here.

Picture 4: If you make a left-mouse-click somewhere in this line, a sub-menu will open, in which the available speeds from (above) 0.25 (one quarter of the original speed) down to 2 (twice the speed) are listed. Again with the cursor a number to "drive" and left click: The video is played at the desired tempo!

Play video at the desired tempo.

2: View and play videos on mobile device on Youtube: Pictures 5 - 7

Picture 5: If you click in the middle of the screen of a running video movie, three white dots will appear under each other in the upper right corner.

Three white visible dots.

Picture 6: If you click on it, a white highlighted window pops up on the screen of the mobile device, whose third point is called "Playback speed". Mostly next to it is "Normal" - for us that means 100% = 1x = 1x. This is the normal, preset speed.

Normal preset speed.

Picture 7: If you now click somewhere in this line, a new window will open, in which you can select other speeds! The unit then automatically switches to the desired play mode and you can watch the video at the selected speed.

Watch video at selected speed.

3: Play videos on the computer in the VLC media player: Pictures 8 and 9

Figure 8: On the computer you do not have to look for any signs of a change in speed, but you press only the minus key (-) in the numeric keypad on the right of the keyboard of the laptop: immediately reduces the speed and in the current video image as Number displayed - in this example 0.5. This means that the speed is only half as high (0.5 = ½).

Half the speed.

Picture 9: Likewise, it can be very interesting to have some sports displayed at an increased speed in order to be able to perceive / assess the arc of a movement / the "river" as a whole. Accordingly, one presses only the plus key (+) of the numeric keypad. In the photographed example, the speed is 3.00x = 3x as fast as normal.

Speed ​​faster than normal.

4: Play videos on a mobile device in the VLC media player: Pictures 10 - 12

Picture 10: Again, open and start the desired video with the VCL media player.If you click in the area below the video screen, a bar with five orange-colored icons opens.

Open the desired video.

Picture 11: If you click on the second one from the right (three dots next to each other), the current video picture will be overlaid by a screen with a black background, which shows nine symbols in white. Interesting in the top row is the second from the left - a person on the move. Aha: Here the speed is changed.

Here speed is changed.

Picture 12: If you click on it, a black highlighted window with the heading "Playback speed" pops up again. These can now be changed in two ways: either by clicking the plus or minus button on the right side of the screen or by swiping / moving the orange dot along the horizontal lower line.

Change speed in two ways.

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