Is there any way to control X videos, like backing them up or fast forwarding them?
RE: Is there any way to control X videos, like backing them up or fast forwarding them?
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Yes. On an X video, after clicking on the large arrow in the center to begin the video, if the cursor remains within the boundaries of the video, a horizontal line near the bottom shows the progress of the video by it’s movement. If you move the cursor outside the boundaries of the video while it is playing the line disappears. Move the cursor back onto the video to show the line again.
While the video is playing if you click anywhere on the progress line, the video will instantly move to that point in the video and continue playing at that point in the video (Please see alternate method in the next paragraph).
Clicking on the pause symbol in the lower left corner (or clicking anywhere within the video itself) stops the video. If you then move the cursor directly onto the line, a white ball will appear on the line at it’s point of progress. Click and HOLD (with mouse or trackpad) on the white ball while you move it horizontally to the left or to the right.
The video will move forwards or backwards in relation to how you move the ball, and if you stop moving the ball you will see a still image of the video at that point on the progress line. Click and HOLD on the white ball to move it again.
Further controls are seen in the lower right corner, only when the progress line is visible (either paused or playing). Click once on the gear icon there to reveal a popup menu. Click on Playback Speed and click on the speed you want, from 0.25x to 2x.
Click on Video Quality in the popup menu and you can choose your preference. Clicking on the gear icon again (or on the play arrow, or the video itself) will hide the popup menu.
Also in the lower right corner are icons for controlling Volume, Picture-In-Picture, Full screen, as well as the timestamp for elapsed and remaining time.
YouTube has similar controls. I find them quite useful either to save time, or to skip ahead or back to a key part, or to where the actual point of the whole thing is revealed.
For narrated type videos I usually speed them up to as much as 1.75, depending on how fast the person talks. Occasionally, if I’m having a hard time grasping what is said, I’ll slow it down a little to .85 or .9 and replay the sentence until I get it.
By the way, since 2005 when I joined the site, I’ve noticed many cogent comments by you, so thank you for that. As many have stated before, we wish that all posters could be that way.