{"id":228433,"date":"2017-09-11T08:32:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T06:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=228433"},"modified":"2017-09-11T08:36:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T06:36:18","slug":"youtube-launches-variable-speed-playback-on-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/228433-youtube-launches-variable-speed-playback-on-mobile.html","title":{"rendered":"YouTube launches variable speed playback on mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube-eng.googleblog.com\/2017\/09\/variable-speed-playback-on-mobile.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube has launched<\/strong><\/a> variable speed playback for mobile, which allows users to speed up or slow down videos in the YouTube app on iOS and Android.<\/p>\n<p>Playback speed can be adjusted from 0.25x (quarter speed) to 2x (double speed) in the overflow menu of the player controls.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube said the most used speed setting on the web is 1.25x, followed by 1.5x.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeed watching is the new speed listening, which was the new speed reading, especially when consuming long lectures or interviews,\u201d said YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut variable speed isn\u2019t just useful for skimming through content to save time, it can also be an important tool for investigating finer details.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/228391-youtube-rolls-out-hdr-support-to-selected-android-smartphones.html\">YouTube rolls out HDR support to selected Android smartphones<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can speed up or slow down videos in the YouTube app on iOS and Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-228433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228457,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228433\/revisions\/228457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}