Manage updates with the Download AppCNET Editors' review
The simple app consists of a sliding bar that's set to 1.0, regular time, when a video plays. Slide it to the left to slow the sound and picture, or to the right to speed both elements to two or three times the original speed. You can also use shortcut keys to quicken or slow the video. Crtl+Alt+F makes it faster; Crtl+Alt+S drags it down.
The audio and video largely remained in sync when tampered with, but original trip-ups in streaming and buffering were more noticeable with the video accelerated. If you don't set MySpeed to start on boot-up, you'll need to open it each session. After that, it'll run in the background from the system tray.
MySpeed is an amusing, sometimes time-saving utility for YouTube and sources of Flash video. However, for the $30 post-trial asking price for the Windows app, it's clearly aimed at very frequent video watchers, especially e-learners who may want to breeze by some sections of a module and stroll through other, more technical segments.
Publisher's Description
From Enounce:
Enounce MySpeed allows you to speed up or slow down the playback rate of Flash and HTML5 videos without any "chipmunk" quality to the sound. The easy-to-use MySpeed slider bar appears on your desktop and allows real-time speed changes whenever a video is playing in a web-browser or standalone player. It's perfect for lectures, tutorials, training courses, seminars, news, sports and, of course, YouTube. Works on PCs and the Macintosh with Flash video and today's popular browsers. A free seven-day trial is available so you can try before you buy.
What's new in this version: Version 5.2.6.394 added support for Firefox 19, Chrome 24, IE 10 on Windows 8 and recent changes to HTML5 Video.
More Products to Consider
-
Play audio and video files in real-time and streaming modes.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Play video files of multiple video formats.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Play digital media of various formats with 3D and WiDi support.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Play virtually any media file in open-source cross-platform mul...DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Convert, edit video and audio files for multimedia devices.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Take videos from YouTube and convert them into various formats.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Play all the most popular video and audio formats.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Play various FLV files on your desktop.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Convert your videos, audios, and pictures to preferable file fo...DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Convert Video Files to Macromedia Flash SWF, FLV formats.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Play various types of video, audio, movie, music files in Media...DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Convert MP3 and SWF files to FLV format, extract audio from FLV...DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Watch smooth streaming web videos without waiting - eliminate b...DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Accelerate video playback and video downloading.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Convert video and YouTube to AVI, WMV, MP4, FLV, MP3, burn vide...DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Convert Flash to HTML5, YouTube video with high speed and quali...DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Play 99.9 percent of files with a collection of codecs for Wind...DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Convert FLV and SWF files into AVI or MPG format.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Discover and play online videos, download, save, organize, and ...DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Download multiple YouTube files to your hard drive.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Convert any formats video to iPad, iPhone, AVCHD, Blu-Ray, DVD.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Download your favorite videos from the Web and play them.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Create Flash video player for your Web site.DownloadInstalled
Smart Install -
Convert your videos to iPod, iPhone, 3GP, PSP, MP4, H264, AVI, ...DownloadInstalled
Smart Install
-
All versions:
3.9 starsout of 9 votes
-
Current version:
0 stars Be the first to review this product -
My rating:
Write review
Results 1-9 of 9
-
"Complete garbage."
Version: MySpeed 5.2.3
Pros
Works only during the trial. You can't renew the trial period once it expires, you have to buy the program.
Cons
After the trial period expires, the program freezes up, and hogs the CPU to the point where my laptop becomes unresponsive and needs a reset.
Summary
I would rate it ZERO stars if I could.
-
"Flat-out Didn't Work"
Version: MySpeed 3.6.3
Pros
"Promises" to allow you to alter playback speed of Flash-based video playback.
Cons
Didn't deliver on its promises. Lots of neat and useless controls, plus the freshly downloaded and instantly installed version already had to updates. Updates require registration.
Summary
The ability to control the playback speed of Flash-based streaming video is a neat concept and may have worked on an old version or an outdated operating system, however for Win7 Pro 32-bit with Firefox and Flash Payer 10.1.102.64, it was a nothing more than a nice system tray ornament and the auto Show/Hide feature never did hide the slider. The first edition of this program I read about was in 2000, and subsequent versions I read about were from 2008/2009. Now it's Jan 2011 and, for me, at least, this tool is flat-out useless, unless you are looking to take up more system resources and HDD space. I'm no rookie to Windows systems, install/ops/maintenance, and am at least an above average to expert user, so following tried and true testing methods, I can say it isn't my system that failed. This program simply didn't live up to its advertised expectation.
-
"Product has limited functionality"
Version: MySpeed 3.6.3
Pros
speeding up the playback of video saves time
Cons
The only problem with Myspeed is its limited functionality compared to a product like Video Surgeon. This software has the ability to change the speed of playback, zoom-in, and to set loop points repeated playback + it downloads vids from the net.
Summary
The only problem with Myspeed is its limited functionality compared to a product like Video Surgeon. This software has the ability to change the speed of playback, zoom-in, and to set loop points repeated playback + it downloads vids from the net.
For more info go to www.videosurgeon.net -
"Just what I've been looking for!"
Version: MySpeed 3.5.1
Pros
Great pitch correction for online videos. Awesome for shortening training over long software training videos and focussing on the salient points. Thank you Enounce!
Cons
For the money, nothing at all, although if I had to be pedantic I'd prefer more control over the plugin settings, but that's the geek in me :)
Summary
I love this software for watching tutorials for software like photoshop etc. It's great for zooming past the bits where the author says nothing of value. Highly recommended!
-
"Amazing technology and simple user interface."
Version: MySpeed 3.5.1
Pros
The product offers a unique technology that I've never really seen before, particularly at such a low price point! What's especially nice is that the user interface is extremely simple, and that it's browser-agnostic!
Cons
It would be nice to have more control over the plugin, e.g., enabling it only for certain browsers, certain websites, etc.
Summary
I could see this product serving a very useful need towards students and/or others who were using it to browse instructional videos, news programs, and other fixed-length content. It's far better than simply fast-forwarding because you have a chance to absorb and process content you might have otherwise just skipped.
-
"Don't know how I lived without this product!"
Version: MySpeed 3.5.1
Pros
The slider bar appears automatically whenever Flash video is detected. I didn't realize how much time I was wasting and how SLOOOOWWWWLLLLY many videos run until I started using MySpeed.
Cons
Doesn't work with streaming video, although that's Adobe's problem.
-
"Amazing for online lectures!"
Version: MySpeed 3.5.1
Pros
Simple to use. Works well. Minimizes to tray when not in use. Can be turned off.
Cons
I haven't really found any.
Summary
I started using this for one of my online courses that required us to watch lectures. They were 3 hours long. MySpeed let me speed it up and it took less than 2 to get though it and still understand everything being said. I don't know if I could have watched the lectures without this. It minimizes to the tray to stay out of your way when you don't need it up. You can even turn it off so it doesn't interfere with other videos. The option to start playback at normal speed makes this ideal for going from video to video, or lecture to lecture in my case.
I love this program. I'll definitely be keeping it for a long, long time. -
"Brilliant concept and easy to use."
Version: MySpeed 3.5.1
Pros
I can speed up online training videos to double speed and faster and still understand everything. A huge time saving tool.
Cons
It works great with Flash media. If it only worked with every media player it would be even better.
-
"Most helpful application I've ever used!"
Version: MySpeed 2.14 beta
Pros
I absolutely live and breathe MYSPEED. It is essential to getting all of my lectures watched! I can't live without it (ask the developers). Every time there is an update I haveeee to have it!
Cons
none, it does exactly what it is supposed to and excels at it!
Summary
Speeds up voices without chipmunking. Slows down for pronunciations. AMazing amazing product!
