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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?

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On Thu, 12/11/2025 2:13 PM, 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?

speedtest.net

Do you have any significant bandwidth limitations ?

Right click the playing pane, and bring up the Nerd Stats.
(This is using OCR in Snippingtool, with some minor edits for tabular purpose)

Video ID / sCPN M4Pi905myWM / 9M4N N4V6 ZFE4 GT5G S1X0 [x]
Viewport / Frames 640x360*2.86 / 0 dropped of 867 # Active area is 1861 pixels wide
Current / Optimal Res 1920x1080@24/ 1920x1080@24 # 4K screen, 200% setting, =HD
Volume / Normalized 100% / DRC (content loudness 1.3dB)
Codecs vp9 (248) / opus (251)
Color bt709 / bt709
Connection Speed 7228 Kbps
Network Activity 0 KB
Buffer Health 53.08 s
Mystery Text SABR, s:8 t:36.12 b:0.000-89.001 pbs:18182
Date Thu Dec 11 2025 15:28:32 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

The video is VP9 and is incoming at 640x360 resolution.
The connection speed has helped provided 53 seconds of pre-buffer.

Using YT-DLP, you can list the available formats and
download the "best format" without selecting anything.
It might say in the YT-DLP listing of formats, whether
any actual full HD 1920x1080 content is available.

The "248" and "251", you should see those in the list of formats
available as possible streams to play for that content. When
the "Best" format is played by default, a video stream and
an audio stream are downloaded, and FFMPEG stitches them
together to make an output video file.

I think it is selecting a low-res VP9 and upscaling it,
for my screen presentation.

Paul
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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.
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Cheers, Carlos.
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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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On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:18:56 -0500, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

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.

<snip>

I see Playback Speed under Settings on any YT video.

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