Recently I was talking with a friend of mine who studies at the LMU about how nice lecture videos are.
And we found out that the LMU player does not support faster playback speeds (Something I think is quite nice to have, If you re-watch a lecture).
So after some googling, we found out that there should be a way, as this help page suggests - but It doesn't work?
Maybe because it's not intended, as this document indicates ;)
Anyways, since I think it should be supported and I had some time on my hands, so why not build a chrome-plugin, that does just that!
But since I'm not a student of the LMU and thus don't have access to the videos - I hit a roadblock...
Nothing, some googling can't fix!
There's an (I guess openly accessible) law-lecture available here, found via google.
And so I was off to get started!
Once installed, the extension is automatically loaded, when you open an LMUCast stream and injects some css and js into the page.
The changes are only cosmetic and fully client-side, so no, the extension does not interact with the LMU's servers or anything like that.\
I published this extension to the Chrome Webstore as well and since it's passed inspection, you can download it here!
You'll either need to have git installed, or be able to download this repo as a zip file :)
Recommended way, simpler to update.
git clone https://github.com/meinlebenswerk/LMUCast-.git
Click the code icon in the right corner and then select download zip. Unpack the zip somewhere and you're ready to install.
- Open Chrome
- Go to settings and then
extensions - Enable Developer mode in the right corner
- click on
load unpacked extensionand select the folder where you downloaded/unpacked the extension to - the extension should show up and be ready to use