Is this a common knowledge? Is this an old feature? I accidentally found about it few days ago.

  • davel [he/him]
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    2110 months ago

    Also, if you hit the “?” key, it will show you over two dozen keyboard shortcuts.

  • @metostopholes
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    1510 months ago

    You can also use the spacebar.

    No idea how long it’s been a feature, I only found it recently.

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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      910 months ago

      Wait, didn’t spacebar pause the video for awhile? I haven’t used desktop YouTube in a hot minute, so I might be completely misremembering or conflating it with a VLC hotkey.

      • @metostopholes
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        1310 months ago

        It does if you tap it, but holding down speeds up the video.

  • @OrderedChaos
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    510 months ago

    I found out because sometimes my finger will involuntarily press down without me noticing. Lol

  • Sjmarf
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    310 months ago

    This is pretty new. They gave me a popup when they added it a couple months ago.

  • @shalafi
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    310 months ago

    This is awesome! I’m often trying to reassemble old guns I get on the cheap to refurbish, and being mechanically challenged, I need to speed through the bits I don’t need and go over and over the fine details. Be helpful for the same reason when working on my car.

  • @CrayonRosary
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    210 months ago

    Same with the Android app. It used to let you swipe left and right to move backward and forward in the video, but now it just does the 2x speed thing.

    • WistfulOP
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      210 months ago

      Yeah, scrolling over video speed icon is really nice.