Feature Request: Increase or Decrease Playback Speed

General Discussions
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+1 I would love to see this feature too.

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+1

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+1

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+1

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+1

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This would be great for watching some tutorial videos I have

47

I would like to have this as well. Currently I have to use AV-Player with Plex-DLNA. Unusefull.

48

+1. This is a must for lectures.

49

+1 bump would be a nice feature

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I know this is an old post, but I needed the same functionality so that I could get through all my weekly TV shows. I wrote a quick little bookmarklet that adds backward/forward seeking and variable playback to TV and movies (not tested on audio, probably needs to be tweaked slightly). Simply drag the bookmarklet into your bookmark bar and click it every time you start a new video.

googledrive.com/host/0B2nEQjKE2EhxSFp3VENFT0V2Vlk

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Wow thanks for that x68507!

Now if only Plex would add this feature in so it would be automatic.

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Just wanted to bump this because I too think this would be a great feature and would really love to have it.

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After some googling I have found temporal solution till Plex will realises increase/decrease into its awesome app.
Chrome users can install plug-in called Video Speed Controller If anyone interested I found this information here

54

+1 bump. When binge watching shows Iā€™ve already seen its a great feature to have. VLC can easily cut a 20 minute episode down to 15 minutes without affecting watchability to much.

55

Agreed. Iā€™d still really love to see this happen.

56

Another bump in hope of adding this feature.

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@x68507
First of all, thank you for this solution! It looks like your bookmarklet doesnā€™t work with the current version of Plex. I can make it work with a few tweaks if enough people ask for it.

I did however use your code as a starting point to make a bookmarklet for increasing and decreasing speed of audio playback. It works with the current Plex web player as of now. You can add this to any browser.

Just add a bookmark and edit it to place this exact code in the url. (Look up how to add a bookmarklet to your browser if confused).
javascript:(function() { var v = "2.2.2"; if (window.jQuery === undefined || window.jQuery.fn.jquery < v) { var done = false; var script = document.createElement("script"); script.type = "text/javascript"; script.src = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/" + v + "/jquery.min.js"; script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = function() { if (!done && (!this.readyState || this.readyState == "loaded" || this.readyState == "complete")) { done = true; initMyBookmarklet(); } }; document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(script); } else { initMyBookmarklet(); } function initMyBookmarklet() { (function() { var l = $('.mini-controls-below-track-segment').eq(2); l.append('<button class="btn-link mrh-rr" title="Skip back 10 seconds" onclick="$(\'audio\')[0].currentTime = $(\'audio\')[0].currentTime - 10;"><strong>ā†¶</strong></button>'); l.append('<button class="btn-link mrh-ff" title="Skip ahead 10 seconds" onclick="$(\'audio\')[0].currentTime = $(\'audio\')[0].currentTime + 10;"><strong>ā†·</strong></button>'); l.append('<button class="btn-link mrh-plus" title="Increase speed by .1" onclick="rt = $(\'audio\')[0].playbackRate;rt = (rt>2.9?rt:rt+0.1).toFixed(1);$(\'.mrh-ct\').text(rt+\'x\');$(\'audio\')[0].playbackRate = rt;"><strong>+</strong></button>'); l.append('<button class="btn-link mrh-ct" title="Toggle 1.0x, 1.5x, or 2.0x" onclick="rt = $(\'audio\')[0].playbackRate;rt = (rt>1.9?1:(Math.ceil((rt+.001)*2)/2)).toFixed(1);$(\'.mrh-ct\').text(rt+\'x\');$(\'audio\')[0].playbackRate = rt;"><strong>1.0x</strong></button>'); l.append('<button class="btn-link mrh-minus" title="Decrease speed by .1" onclick="rt = $(\'audio\')[0].playbackRate;rt = (rt<0.6?rt:rt-0.1).toFixed(1);$(\'.mrh-ct\').text(rt+\'x\');$(\'audio\')[0].playbackRate = rt;"><strong>-</strong></button>'); })(); } })();

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+1 I would love to have this feature

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I use Plex on my Roku 2 every day and would love to have variable playback speed. For example, Youtube allows 0.25, 0.5, 1x, 1.5, and 2x the normal speed. I almost always prefer watching videos at 1.5-2.0x. So many people would love this feature (as shown in these 3 pages of comments plus more here and elsewhere on the internet: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/3yxf4x/anyway_to_increase_playback_speed/) Iā€™m a software engineer and would be happy to help figure out the necessary code if Plex would point me in the right direction.

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+1
Really looking for this. For me, the web player solution doesnā€™t do it. I watch on my appletv, roku, and iphone.