If there's a page with more than one video the extension only works with the first. There's a way to solve this?

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'd prefer to play all videos at a certain speed and cadence by default and only have it switched back to normal occasionally.

Describe the solution you'd like
Please provide a keyboard hotkey toggle.

Describe alternatives you've considered
This extension comes close, but it doesn't actually skip silence.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk

Additional context
Like this:

This bug can be reproduced on youtube.com with the following setup:

• newest version of chrome and skip silence from chrome web store
• playback speed: 1,75x; silence speed: 4x; volume threshold: 2%;
  duration threshold: 10 samples; pre-buffer time: 100ms

Thank you for this extension. It is extremely useful. I have seen carykh's video about his python program and eagerly waited for someone to program it exactly this way.

hi,

It would be great to silence volume in the portion Which is skipped. Right now when the video is being skipped audio portion is also being rushed in the same speed as the video silence speed setting. Now if there is no background noise this works perfectly. However if there is background noise, the rushing of audio results in a strange sound. So would really appreciate if there’s a toggle button or mute that portion.

I believe CaryKH's tool had some kind of smoothening. I never felt this jerking sound with that.

Thank you.

I don't know if this suggestion can be implemented, but it could potentially be helpful.

On my system (possibly on others), the higher the speedup on silent parts is, the more of the next "playback speed" part is unintentionally skipped as well.

Up to 4x is no problem, but the higher you go, the more words of the next sentence I miss. Maybe it's a driver issue on my system, but maybe others experience the same thing.

A possible remedy would be to add an option that would combine the mute function with a auto-rewind function with a user-customizable setting.

For example, if someone loses 500ms when setting the silence speed to 10x, the extension would skip the silent part muted, then go back 500ms and start playing unmuted at the "playback speed".

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Some times you need to go back to 1x or quickly disable the extension and then re-enable.

Describe the solution you'd like
A keyboard shortcut to enable/disable the extension. (preferably the key could be customised)
Additionally, a shortcut to increase or decrease the playback/silence speeds can also be considered.

I use this app often, and I've been meaning to mention that the extension doesn't seem to function on Zoom pre-recorded stuff.

Are there any known workarounds for the time being, or would support have to be explicitly added for it?

On Brave browser it isn't doesn't work

I'm not sure when it started happening, but this extension no longer seems to detect media elements on YouTube. Normally, I would expect to see the icon turn purple and give me playback options, but it doesn't now. For example, I recently tried it on this video in Chrome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqcW8kJAMJg

Describe the bug
Video and Audio becomes out of sync after some time when using skip silence
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Can be tested on any video

Expected behavior
Everything should remain in sync throughout the video

**Desktop **

• OS: [Windows 10]
• Browser : Chrome
• Skip Silence Version 3

Audio level is not detected

How about storing and showing global saved statistics? Currently it's only on per tab basis.

if turned on in any video it works, but when new video selected again it has to be started by clicking icon and as there is no any option to save the applied changes, i need to every time tune the desired changes.

1. option to auto start on any video.
2. option to save the tuned changes so it dont need to be tuned every time

thank for making such excellent extension

kind regards.

I believe drive uses same player as YouTube but extension doesn't pick up the video and get active.

I have no idea how this extension is supposed to even work, nothing activates it or anything. Im totally lost and confused

Describe the bug
Invidious instances doesn't seem to play videos correctly, instead all of the videos (including those who don't have silence) seems to be sped up.

To Reproduce

1. Turn on skip silence on one of the invidious instances
2. Select a video
3. Play the video
4. Video speds up from the start to the end

Expected behavior
Video plays normally and speds up when there is a silence.

Screenshots
None.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS : "Windows 7 x64"
• Browser : "Ungoogled chromium"
• Skip Silence Version : "3"

Additional context
None.

Hello there, Bennett. Right to the point.

Would you be so kind to add an adaptive (dynamic) threshold option?
It's a part of software adaptive noise gates and dynamic range compressors in real-time digital signal processing for decades. Our task is also "real-time" processing. Presumably, no large preload or buffering needed yet.

The basic idea is to start with zero (silence) threshold and x1 speed gradually integrate the volume level of incoming samples , calculating the whole volume scale of the already played part: the highest integral level, the lowest integral level (noise/music) etc. The threshold gradually moves up to the calculated noise/music level during the whole playback. Moving back towards safe (0%) threshold has to be accelerated so no audio is lost when music/noise level dramatically decreased. Also the next trick with quiet audio speed slowdown comes handy.

Adaptive speed option can be very useful. Generally - the lower highest integral volume or (option) the higher the threshold over time is, the less FF speed is used for the user to hear better what was said.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Hi dear vantezzen,

on trying to build the same plugin I stumbled over yours. Great thanks! :) Saves a lot of time.

I wasn't sure, wether audio analysis could be done right in the browser, so I though of an aproach that might come in handy with the skipping-first-few-frames issue. And wanted to ask for your opinion about it.

It's just cloning the content of the player to a canvas (or using a node-copy) timeshifted.
I.e. doing the analysis in the original player element, which is hidden. And using the results to control the second element which actually gets displayed.

I have another feature Idea, that I will ask for in another Issue :)

Thanks again for the great extension, it is better than I had planned mine :)

edpuzzle.com

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Version 3

Love the new custom/faster speeds but Brave (and probably other platforms) can't play above 16x speed. As far as I know this is a browser/chromium limit and not a extension bug.

But with the new speed options, when you select a speed above 16x it "locks" the threshold. Requiring a page refresh to return to normal operation.

System info just in case:

• Windows 10 64bit
• Brave 1.26.74 Chromium: 91.0.4472.124
• Skip Silence 3 (3.4.0)

Prevents time between words to be treated as silence.

Hi,

as a developer I frequently use the Chrome Dev Console. Since the last update of this extension, it unfortunately logs out messages, often in a regular interval. Can you remove that from the extension? It is cluttering my console a bit.

To reproduce:
Go to https://example.com and look into the console.

You can use "Hide messages from main.js" by right-clicking the filename, but that does not seem like a clean solution and the filter generated by this seems to reset itself after some time (or after a Browser restart).

It seems that isDebug is true in the current Chrome Webstore version of the extension.

Cheers!

A 1.00x playback speed having a lot of audio clicking, I noticed that when having 1.25x, audio clicking is almost entirely gone. Since there's no other speeds between 1.00x and 1.25x, would it be possible to implement a 1.01x and see if it gets rid of the clicking entirely? If you try this and it doesn't work, would it still be possible to implement manual playback speed so I could set any arbitrary playback speed? Sometimes I feel like 1.25x is too fast so I'd like to see if 1.10x would be nicer. Muting silence doesn't seem to get rid of the clicking entirely so this is why I'm making this request.

In short:

• Feature request: be able to manually choose any playback speed
• If not possible, more playback speeds between 1.00x and 1.25x

Thanks for this extension, it's saved a lot of time. It's just awesome to have.

Edit: I've now realized more people have requested this so I'm sorry for the double posting. Either way, this may let you know that 1.01x could be a possible permanent solution for the audio clicking.

While the extension is working for me, I'm not able to access the settings popup menu by clicking on the extension icon. It just brings up the default chrome menu:

Am I maybe just doing something wrong?

Love this extension and used it a lot the last weeks. But suddenly after the update it doesnt detect the audio anymore. I activated file-url access but this does not solve the problem.
On Youtube it still works fine though. Only file Urls wont work.

Edit:
I tried using 2.0 release as well as the latest commit version:
c1f3cde
but both are not working. With 1.0 release it is working just fine.

Hi,

Great add on, saves so much time, thank you for your work.

I have been successfully using this extension for weeks, for playing .mp4 videos on chrome from my hard drive.
And now all of a sudden it doesn't work anymore, The icon is still purple but when I press the big red button, the soundbar doesn't move, like there is no sound. So it is just going fast forward all the time.
I'm doing everything the same, and I didn't change anything so I don't understand why it was working perfectly all this time and now it doesn't for no apparent reason.
Maybe chrome or windows update?

It still works normally for youtube videos, but not for my local mp4 files.
And when I play the mp4 video on chrome without turning on the extension, it works normally too, with sound.
And it still works fine on my laptop. My laptop is offline so it maybe didn't have the win10 or chrome update yet.

Thank you for your help.

custom shortcuts

it stays behind

What service is not compatible? (e.g. "Vimeo"): HTML5 Video Tag

Can you provide a link to a specific video where this has occurred? (i.e. can you provide the link where this happend?): every video opened direct in the browser

What is the exact problem that occurred? (e.g. "No sound detected" or "No video detected/icon is not green"): No video detected

What version of Skip Silence are you using? (i.e. 1, 2 or 3. You can find this information by opening the popup, it should be right in the title): 3

Problem is probably caused by having a source tag within an video tag instead of a src attribute.

forward backward shortcut

i want to change shortcuts like this
arrow up -> d button
arrow down -> s button

I use chrome extension Local Media Player (i'll use "LMP" in further text) . Problem is that when I turn on your extension it plays video separately from the video playing on LMP. Even if I pause video on LMP, or turn off your extension, other video that is somehow duplicated continues. Also your extension doesn't registry it, its just playing - I dont know where. This is happening after the new update, it was all fine before.

If you can't fix it fast, or dont know how to, dont bother to do it, i'll use other player.

Hello,

Thanks for making such a great add-on. I use it extensively on youtube.
Recently when I tried it on Coursera it doesn't work. Icon is enabled, but when I turn it on volume bar is empty. below screenshot.

However I did get it working a couple of times as well.
I am not sure why this works strange here.

The extension has been doing pretty well since I installed it about a month ago. Unfortunately, yesterday (7.07.2021) it stopped working with my browser at all, along with the new update 3.4.0.
Even though I use websites like YouTube or Microsoft Stream, the extension's icon remains blank and the user interface of this very extension cannot be opened.
I don't get any particular error messages and the extension appears to be inactive.

• OS: Win10 64bit
• Browser: Opera 77.0.4054.172
• Skip Silence 3, Version 3.4.0

Hi, thanks for making this excellent addon.

While skip silence enabled, I am observing a lip sync issue in youtube videos.
Audio is skipped exactly as needed, but it seems like an issue with frames are skipped differently.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNHBMFCzznE and play
2. Click on skip silence to enable it.
3. lip sync issues come up as we watch through

Expected behavior
Clear skips silence without the lip sync mismatches.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Windows 10
• Browser: Brave, Edge
• Skip Silence Version 3

I encountered error that it frequently doesn't slow down video playback whenever a audio segment starts after silence. I checked the audio volume indicator it gets stuck at zero and starts working normally automatically after some time. I also made sure that the window was always in the foreground , it still occurs.

As said. I can try my very best to offer any debug information if you need them.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The "Enable skip silence" is automatically reset to false if I reload the page, or open a new page. The same happens to "Volume Threshold" (the playback speeds are saved).

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like that these settings are saved always. Ideally that they are carried over would be a toggle in itself.

Hi dear vantezzen,

me again, proposing another idea :)

Speech recognition combined with a local database to be able to search for phrases in the current and all viewed videos.

My question here would be:
Do you know a way to do speech recognition in the whole video faster, than normal playback speed (in advance)?

Subtitles could be another benefit.

I was just wondering if there were any plans to make it work on firefox.

hi, sorry i know this is entirely unrelated. But can this abillity be made as an addon for VLC?

i have the lectures in recorded format so, cant use this extension in this form. i have searched the web, and no solution seems to exist for VLC. it doesnt have waveform support, otherwise i'd have considered using that as an aid in manually skipping silence.

So...

sorry again, i just felt a bit helpless regarding vlc's lack of options there.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I often watch videos on speeds not listed in the app like 2.4x, 3.2x, etc. using an extension called Video Speed Controller. Because this app only allows setting predefined steps for playback speed, it constantly resets the speed I had picked and I have to manually readjust it.

Describe the solution you'd like
Let us type in any speed ratio and possibly add a keybind like the above extension to let us go up in increments of our choosing (0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 1.0, etc) without opening the full panel or command bar. It would eliminate the need to have two conflicting extensions.

The bug mentioned as the cause of the lack of Firefox support has been resolved. Is it possible to package the extension for Firefox? Maybe publish it on AMO?

it does not detect audio on https://us.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/playback
but, works well with the 1x 2x 3x acceleration tho
Loved the tool, making weird pauses a thing of the past in a way

hard to tell when i slider what i am setting. if duration threshold had MS or volume threshold had some db then its easier to set and gauge what I am setting.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I sometimes find that 5x limit of silence speed insufficient while watching lecture videos (eg. when prof asks us to work on a problem and waits for 5 mins)

Describe the solution you'd like
A 10x or more option for silence speed would be a good solution to this

play the training screen again

So now that I got the extension to activate, no where in the tutorial does it explain how to actually the video once its been edited. Not understanding this at all.....