platyhiker

Here are a few tricks, for dealing with slow videos:
1) Skip over long, rambling introductions by moving your mouse cursor over the slider near the bottom to find the first part of the video where the person appears to be actually doing something and clicking on that point.
2) Increase the playback speed, by clicking on the Settings control (it looks like a gear wheel) and selecting a faster playback speed. (I find that 1.5 gets things really moving along while still being understandable.)
3) When a video seems to be bogged down on something, move the mouse cursor over the slider to find the next section of video where it has moved on to something else, and then click on that point.

Using these tricks, I was able to get what I wanted to know out of the video in less than a minute, rather than slogging through the full length of it. These tricks make how-to videos much nicer for me to use.