Video Speed Controller

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Speed up, slow down, advance and rewind HTML5 audio/video with shortcuts

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Description from store HTML5 video provides native APIs to accelerate playback of any video, but most implemented players either hide or limit this functionality. This extension fixes that, plus more... It will help you optimize your video viewing by allowing you to make quick playback speed adjustments, as well as rewind the video to hear the last few second one more time. We don't read at a constant speed, and we talk much slower than we read - there is no reason why we have to listen at a constant speed and at a (very) slow rate. Once the extension is installed simply navigate to any page that offers HTML5 video, and you'll see a speed indicator in top left corner of the video player. Hover over the indicator to reveal the controls to accelerate, slowdown, or rewind the video (10 seconds + lowers playback speed). Or, even better, use your keyboard: - S - decrease playback speed. - D - increase playback speed. - R - reset playback speed. - Z - rewind video by 10 seconds. - X - advance video by 10 seconds. - V - show/hide controller. If you prefer other shortcuts, want to change the increment value, or want the player to remember your playback speed in the future, head into the settings page and customize it to your heart's content.

Latest reviews

(2025-08-28) Kahel Mendoza: Useful extension! The only thing I don't like is that you have to save after each edit in the settings or it won't apply the changes.
(2025-08-28) Sahil Thakkar: New update messed up a lot of stuff. Scrolling on the video speed no longer changes the speed. Sometimes it randomly goes to 0.07x randomly. And pressing R to reset to last used speed doesn't work anymore!!!!!!!!!
(2025-08-25) shome Jeon: I’m using it very well, but version 0.9.4 often doesn’t load and doesn’t work at all. If it can’t be fixed right away, please roll back the version for now. The occasional bug where it goes back to 0.07 is a bit inconvenient, but version 0.9.4 often can’t be used at all.
(2025-08-25) Jr Mike: worst update ever
(2025-08-23) Hunter Robbins: Stopped working. After upgrading my OS, the Video Speed Controller has ceased to work. Even before that, it only worked a fraction of the time. I't just not reliable.
(2025-08-23) Namajai Hahja: To fix the problem where you cant speed up to a certain you add a new key bind and do increase speed and then you set the key bind and max is set it ranging from 1.0 to 16.0 Still stupid that they change the entire ui like nobody asked for it this extensions is getting worse and worse by time coming
(2025-08-22) Anurag Kashyap: Video speed keep reverting to 0.07 on jiohotstar.com
(2025-08-22) Ron B: Was pretty much a perfect extension before and I've been using it for years with custom keybinds. Unfortunately they updated it and now all settings are gone.. I don't think there's any new functionality either so the update was just to make the settings page marginally more colourful :(
(2025-08-22) Ramin D: I've been using it for years, It's great. One question: What does "Allow event propagation" do?
(2025-08-21) Force Master: Options/keybinds don't save on the options page. Useful extension otherwise. EDIT 3: I think I got it: if there's a tab with a video actively using the extension's settings, focusing that tab (or playing the video? my video autoplayed on tab-focus.) re-saves the old options that had been set when that tab had first loaded. - for Edit 1, such a tab was immediately next to every options tab I opened, and closing the options autofocused the video tab. - for Edit 2, I had added a tab (this Chrome Store tab) between them; so closing the options then reopening them was no longer focusing the video tab... but then when I did go back to the video, the options reset again. I had to close the video tab altogether, open/set/save options, then reopen the video in a completely new tab. That's when my settings worked. ...I hope I didn't open any other video tabs after installing the extension. They would reset my options. A possible best-practice: set your options, save them, and immediately close the entire browser without even closing the options tab. After that, I suspect relaunching the browser will give all tabs the last settings that were saved. EDIT 2: Ignore the notes below. The options end up resetting themselves later; I haven't determined a trigger for that right now. I wonder if it's asynchronous updates or something, but idk what would be the other source. EDIT 1: Options *sometimes* save when you change exactly 1 at a time; reloading the page appears to be unnecessary. At one point, I was able to change a 1st option, save, change a 2nd option, save, close the options altogether, reopen them... and I saw my changes had been persisted.
(2025-08-20) Praketh: used to be soo gooodd but it's bad now, I usually use r cap to set to a particular speed but it stopped working now
(2025-08-20) fash ur: Settings change all the d4-mn time to random4-ss sh-1t, dev wh-at th-e he-ll are you sm-oking
(2025-08-20) Brian Hahn: It was really good before the last update. But it keeps becoming corrupt, forcing me to repair and lose speed settings. The speed settings are also hard to save because they keep reverting back to default.
(2025-08-19) Monish C: Works very well, glad it's still being updated.
(2025-08-18) Lakesh Sahu: Great product, works well, solve real problem of website that have video contents.
(2025-08-17) nelson lai: When will the dev fix the damn 0.07 issue
(2025-08-17) Omer Abdullah: This is a helpful tool to control your video speed. Highly recomended
(2025-08-14) Jaden Greenberg: Basically if you tinker with the settings and get up from your computer momentarily, it only takes that long for the settings to revert to default. This is extremely annoying (in addition to the default 1.7 speed currently happening). Please address both of these concerns. Could be a flawless tool/extension if these sorts of things could be avoided
(2025-08-13) Vanshit Garg: temporary solution to (0.07x) problem can be solved just by enabling "Force last saved speed" option.
(2025-08-13) N C: No longer working on Hulu
(2025-08-12) Oleg Kh: Screw the last update, my settings and bind buttons reset almost every day. But I enjoyed the extension all the time before
(2025-08-12) sasa: I LOVE THIS
(2025-08-12) Asim: speed resets to 0.7x automatically after recent update
(2025-08-10) MrProRock33rus: It's like it's made for YouTube, but it works on any video/gif, etc., but it doesn't work on YouTube itself. Well, it does work, but it constantly causes playback errors, leaving the videos in an endless loading state. Sometimes it happens at ~19 seconds, and sometimes it happens at any other time. Disabling this extension solved the problem.
(2025-08-09) line over_: last update Fuxxing bug, it plays video at x0.07 speed Even though I manage the setting (R = 1.0), it is reverted to its Fuxxing state(r=0.07).
(2025-08-08) Anika: Recently having issues on sites like Plex and Youtube. It's started playing Plex videos on 0.07 speed. And with Youtube it restarts the speed to 1 every video now, instead of keeping the same speed. Usually works great but I'm assuming the latest update messed things up.
(2025-08-08) Aaron Dunbrack: Worked great until latest update, so I'm reverting (for instructions, as mentioned in another review, see the fourth poster of this thread: https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed/issues/1257)
(2025-08-08) Charity Osoro: been bugging a lot lately
(2025-08-06) bap boom: so fxxking good！!!!!!!!!!!!
(2025-08-04) KirK Lazarus: On many sites, videos start playing at 0.07x speed, and even when moving forward or backward, the speed automatically resets to 0.07x. Latest update ruined it.
(2025-08-03) George Yu: The most recent versions, 0.9.1 and 0.9.2, are extremely buggy. To revert back to version 0.7.4 when everything was working fine, follow the instructions in this link: https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed/issues/1257#issuecomment-3140619025 Ilya Grigorik/igrigorik, please revert back to version 0.7.4. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Thank you.
(2025-08-02) Jenifer Purnomo: Doesn't work on Indonesia's Disney+ Hotstar
(2025-08-01) 藤沢はると: Recent updates have caused issues with how it works on YouTube. Even though I've set a different playback speed on YouTube, when I open a new video, it resets to 1.0x speed. This didn't happen in previous versions.
(2025-08-01) Moshe Rubin: Latest update breaks Smartsheet. Please roll back
(2025-08-01) Connor Byers: Another once great extension that has turned into MalWare.... per ActiveCampaigns support "Thanks for your patience. I have heard back from our Technical team regarding this. The code possibly appears from someone from your team accessing the editor that is running an extension on their device that is injecting the code into the campaign's HTML. They have pointed out because it shows something like ... src="chrome-extension://nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk/... If you search online for nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk, you will see that it is an extension called "Video Speed Controller.""
(2025-08-01) Divakar Sharma: This is gem.
(2025-08-01) Huy Dao: Please fix 0.07x issue
(2025-07-31) qiang bi: can not save setting!
(2025-07-31) Martin Bligh: Worked great until the last day or so (0.9.2). Now starts at 0.07x in Plex, and "forgets" speed setting in youtube whenever switching resolution or videos. Please rollback latest release to the previous working one.
(2025-07-31) Jordan Kirlin: doesn't work
(2025-07-30) Omar Kasem: Please fix 0.07x issue where it happens
(2025-07-30) Hezron: the recent update has made this wonderful extension a nightmare. now suddenly, clicking on left or right arrows or random keys on the keyboard increases/decreases the speed and i don't have it set that way. i dont know if its because of manifestv3 or what, but find a way to fix it 🙏🏻
(2025-07-30) Noah Weidler: The speed display is showing up completely, or gone completely, no matter how I change the setting. The few times it does show up it does so a few moments after the video UI does.
(2025-07-30) 영웅임: 0.07x fix
(2025-07-30) Armaan Singh: This extension was good before the recent update. Devs, please fix this: If you hold down space or LMB to speed up a video using the default controls on YouTube, the display on the top left will still show 2.00 even after you let go of the button. Then, if you rewind or advance the video using the arrow keys, it will go to 2X speed and you have to press "R" to reset it. It was all fine before this update. On top of this, I added "youtube.com" and "www.youtube.com" to the blocked websites list, but it doesn't work, but that could be my own error. Rating 1 star in hopes of grabbing the attention of the devs.
(2025-07-29) Serhii: QA much? Update broke all the settings and defaults are weird. 0.05 step is also unavailable now, it resets to 0.1.
(2025-07-28) Brandon Johnson: i literally tried to move one of the playback speed on the video player settings for Youtube, but the Speed stays the Same, way to ruin the Extension, do something right and FIX IT!!!!!!!!!
(2025-07-28) Kryštof: I love this addon but it seems that the developer dosent test it before release. First it didnt work and after the dev rolled back the update he now pushed it again with a new problem that video always starts palying at 0.07. What are you doing man? I get that development isnt ease becouse I myself am developer but these problems arent obviously exceptions becouse so many people report them. So it really seems like you dont test the extension at all.
(2025-07-28) S. G.: Awesome Addon. But since today it always starts at 0.07 when opening a new Video
(2025-07-28) レオンジャッキー: I use your app regularly. Recently, when I'm using it with YouTube, the playback speed has been increasing by itself. This seems to happen especially when Shorts are on repeat.

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