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Video Speed/Playback issue

Open ar065 opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

I assume this has to do with the sponsor being almost exactly when the video starts. This video is the first time I've ever encountered this issue.

Settings: All default, with manual skip option enabled.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeHeMZa92eI
  2. Pause the video (I did this with spacebar)
  3. Press 0 to go to the very start of the video
  4. Unpause the video (Also used spacebar to do this)

Result: The video speed is upped drastically, I'm not sure by how much however it's a very noticeable difference. I actually went to youtube video settings to check if I accidentally sped it up, however there were no such changes. I then managed to reproduce the issue successfully multiple times. To verify that this was sponsor blocks issue, I enabled sponsor block to be used in incognito mode, where no other extensions are being used. I was then able to reproduce the issue there as well. I tested this with and without sponsor block as well. In situations where it was installed, this issue occurred.

I apologize if this is a duplicate issue, however I looked through issues and couldn't find one myself (Although I could have missed it).

Edit: Just noticed that if you repeat steps 2 - 4, the speed will get exponentially faster.

ar065 avatar Apr 04 '23 22:04 ar065

unable to reproduce

this extension never touches playback speed

ajayyy avatar Apr 04 '23 22:04 ajayyy

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/45273698/229935345-cee453b9-59bb-4a8c-8e53-58aafcc627ce.mp4

Here is a video showing the issue, not sure if it acts differently on different browsers, but here is my browser version Brave | 1.49.132 Chromium: 111.0.5563.147 (Official Build) (64-bit)

ar065 avatar Apr 04 '23 22:04 ar065

unable to reproduce

this extension never touches playback speed

Indeed it does not, although it does skip parts of the video. This makes it entirely possible for it to have the effect of speeding up playback; and for this to happen it would have to get stuck in a loop of skipping parts of the video, which is what appears to be happening in this case.

ar065 avatar Apr 05 '23 15:04 ar065

This bug is real and happens but usually gets fixed with a quick page reload. but it only started occurring from last month. It is really hard to reproduce and also occurs on chrome

dev-cron avatar Apr 17 '23 16:04 dev-cron