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   On Thu, 12/11/2025 5:14 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-11 20:13, micky wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Playback a court video on Youtube and the cop sounded like he was on   
   >> drugs.  Then I noticed everyone else sounded a little sleepy too.  I   
   >> checked playback speed and it was set to Custom 0.7, and I could appear   
   >> to change that but it never did change, except for the embedded   
   >> adverstisement  https://youtu.be/M4Pi9O5myWM  "Audit the Court" which is   
   >> a series and I've watched 1 or 2 others from that series without   
   >> noticing anything strange.   Badge on settings that says HD.  I don't   
   >> remember others being HD.  Do they have to slow down HD to get all the   
   >> data to play in a non-HD player?   Is my 4 yo. PC a non-HD player?   
   >>   
   >> Is this a common thing?  Is there a reason behind it?   
   >>      
   >   
   > When a player can not cope with the video speed, like having too many frames   
   per second of too high resolution, what it does is skip frames. Maybe there   
   are players that instead play slower but display all frames.   
   >   
   > Here, the automatic resolution I get is 480p, not HD.   
   >   
      
   Changing the "pace" of playback, is not triggered by bandwidth.   
   A video player could adjust the resolution selection of   
   a stream, if the pre-buffer period measures poor performance.   
      
   Usually, playback speed is a setting somewhere, but in Youtube   
   I don't see a control for that. Sometimes the issue is a   
   handling issue with the CODEC. Maybe doing the wrong thing   
   with an audio sampling rate. Maybe the audio hardware   
   is reporting incorrect metadata. But if that were the   
   case, you might also lose lip-sync.   
      
   Right-clicking the pane of the video while it is playing,   
   and accessing the Nerd stats, should give some info so   
   you can identify which exact streams are involved.   
   Using YT-DLP, you can capture the same streams and   
   play the video in VLC to see if the player there   
   does a better job of it.   
      
      Paul   
      
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