Is there a way to watch videos (for example on YouTube) faster?

"Increase or Decrease the Playback Speed of YouTube Videos [HowTo]

Enounce MySpeed™ Plug-In for YouTube is a utility for Windows
XP and Vista, which after
installation, runs in your system
tray. Whenever you visit a YouTube
video page (in fact any page that
contains a flash video), it shows a
little slider using which you can
change the video playback speed.

1.0 is the normal playback speed. Set the slider to anything less than 1.0
and you can slow down the video.
Taking the slider above 1.0, increases
the speed of video playback. A very
good feature is that this utility
doesn’t distort the audio even at high
playback speeds. It eats less memory
(about 7 Mb) and will not hog your
system.

Required OS

Windows XP or Vista

Browser

Internet Explorer 6 or 7 or Firefox 2
or 3 (Google Chrome, Safari and Opera
works, but is experimental).

Flash Version

Flash 9 or 10.

Source"

"Have you seen MySpeed for PC?

You can also download the .flv file and play back in VLC Media Player."