BarBri 1.5 Speed (or more) Redux

If you're like me, you're impatient with the pace of the BarBri lectures and want to watch them at a faster speed. This has been an outstanding request with BarBri for at least a year, and N&B and ATL both have posts on this from last year. But if you don't want to dig through the comments, here's what currently works for me.

NB: AFAIK, this only works on Windows. If someone with a Mac has a solution, please chime in via the comments.

1. Install the Internet Download Manager (IDM). There's a 30-day free trial, enough time for you to download whatever videos you need.
2. Install VLC as a media player.
3.  Log in to BarBri and start watching one of the lecture videos. If you've installed IDM correctly, you'll see something like this:
   
   
   
   
4. Click the "Download this video" button.
5. Once it's done downloading, open the resulting .flv file in VLC. In the menu, go to Playback > Speed > Faster. This will increase the speed by 50%. You can also increment the speed a little more (10%) by selecting Playback > Speed > Faster (fine).

Pro-tip: You can use the keyboard to adjust playback in VLC as well. By default, here are some common ones (you can see the rest in the preferences somewhere):

• [ - 10% slower
• ] - 10% faster
• Space - pause
• Alt + Left - Jump back 10 seconds
• Ctrl + Left - Jump back 60 seconds
• Alt + Right - Jump forward 10 seconds
• Ctrl + Right - Jump forward 60 seconds

Again, not sure what the Mac equivalent of IDM would be. I suspect there's a Firefox plug-in but none of them seem to work for me. So if anyone has answers there, please chime in.