Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

YouTube playback speed issue (audio)

  • 3 replies
  • 1 has this problem
  • 6 views
  • Last reply by daveyb1337

daveyb1337
daveyb1337
more options

I usually watch YouTube video's at 1.25x speed, and I noticed recently that it seem to make some audio distorted. So far I've only noticed it on lower notes, but it causes to sound a bit distorted and warbled.

I noticed it on this video: https://youtu.be/IubSudelVmw?t=429 at the tagged time, and also on a channel called The 8-bit Guy on his intro theme. https://youtu.be/d3NIe1jTZMc

Again, this is all at 1.25x speed (or faster), and this only seems to happen in firefox. I made sure to check and see if it was my speakers, which it isn't because I can also hear the distortion through headphones.

I'm not sure there's much to be done to correct the issue, but I thought I'd post about this in hopes it might get checked in a future update.

I usually watch YouTube video's at 1.25x speed, and I noticed recently that it seem to make some audio distorted. So far I've only noticed it on lower notes, but it causes to sound a bit distorted and warbled. I noticed it on this video: https://youtu.be/IubSudelVmw?t=429 at the tagged time, and also on a channel called The 8-bit Guy on his intro theme. https://youtu.be/d3NIe1jTZMc Again, this is all at 1.25x speed (or faster), and this only seems to happen in firefox. I made sure to check and see if it was my speakers, which it isn't because I can also hear the distortion through headphones. I'm not sure there's much to be done to correct the issue, but I thought I'd post about this in hopes it might get checked in a future update.

All Replies (3)

Mamoon
Mamoon
more options

Hey there, I checked both the videos but I couldn't find any audio lag in both. But audio lag has happened with me in past when I was running several tedious tasks at once. Could you try the same by just closing any unnecessary tasks running in the background and try the same.

daveyb1337
daveyb1337 Question owner
more options

Mamoon said
Hey there, I checked both the videos but I couldn't find any audio lag in both. But audio lag has happened with me in past when I was running several tedious tasks at once. Could you try the same by just closing any unnecessary tasks running in the background and try the same.

The audio doesn't lag at all, it's just distorted at the higher speeds. It might not be quite as noticeable, but since I've used chrome for so long, I can pick it up pretty much instantly, especially with channels I've watched regularly.

I also did just try it after a fresh reboot without much extra running, and the issue still occurs.

daveyb1337
daveyb1337 Question owner
more options

So I decided to use Audacity and actually record the audio from both Firefox and Chrome, so maybe it'd be easier to hear the difference. It's mainly when the base hits right around 1 second into the audio. I uploaded them to vacaroo (the imgur of audio if anyone didn't know), hope this is ok to post.

Firefox: https://voca.ro/1bbi5oF1D3kO

Chrome: https://voca.ro/1bHQmwaFxBB0