All these years and still playback speed has not been added? I was considering going premium but this is a showstopper for me.
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5 years already. I often watch videos up to 2x, or would be an incredibly useful feature. Please implement, pretty please.
I don’t think they guys at plex listen to this, since this is now requested for about five years. But just for the record, I would definitely love to have this feature too.
This is actually a reason for me not to use plex if I find a good working alternative.
Kodi has had this feature for a couple of years now. Has anyone tried using the Plex addon in Kodi to accomplish this?
Joseph Elwell.
Good news!
I tested that link and I am happy to report back that using Kodi with the Plex addon does allow you to watch your media using variable playback speed.
I did this on my Amazon Fire TV stick, but I’m sure it would work anywhere Kodi can be installed.
Follow these directions to install Kodi on your FireTV:
Follow these directions to install the Plex Addon:
Follow these instructions to override the fast forward and rewind buttons on your Amazon remote to be increase/decrease playback speed. You can fast forward / rewind using the directional pad, instead of the buttons on the remote:
http://www.joshgrochowski.com/blog/modify-media-playback-speed-on-kodi-and-plex/
Lastly, since you’re presumably using Kodi just for this. You can configure Kodi to auto launch Plex when Kodi starts up:
This can get you to 2x speed (the default max is 1.5x):
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=10023&pid=2854842#pid2854842
The only downsides so far:
- I can’t seem to get any feedback on what playback speed I’m at. There’s supposed to be an overlay that appears that tells you your current rate, but it doesn’t show up.
- I was testing on a video that had 2 versions, Plex for Kodi kept picking the lower resolution one, and worse it didn’t do a very good job of remembering where I was each time I exited Kodi and came back to test a new setting.
At least I don’t have to reimport my entire library into Kodi.
Joseph Elwell.
If you are using Google Chrome or any browser on a Desktop, you can achieve by “modifying” video object in Javascript as simple as:
- Right click on Plex page, select “Inspect”
- Look for Console tab in Developer, then type:
document.querySelector("video").playbackRate = 1.5
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totally agree
Will start using Plex when they allow this option. We need playback speed options like Youtube has (1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x)
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I haven’t looked through all the forums, but do any of these features ever get added? The three I would love (Audiobook, Comicbook/EBook, and playback speed) have all been wanted since 2013 and nothing done about it. 
Sure would be nice to have one awesome program to use for all my media. Really need the playback speed for audiobooks, I think most people play their audiobooks at faster speeds. Listening right now on Plex and it almost seems like the narrator is slurring their speech its so slow. 
Going to finally get the plex pass lifetime so I can sync my audiobooks like I do with Audible without having to use cell data., but without the speed increase it takes a lot longer to listen to a book.
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Really nice to have. VideoLan type control would be fantastic.
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Excellent find! Works perfectly.
+1 (shield/android TV)
Not sure I follow the chromebook suggestion…? I would need step by step to get a clue.
I’ve used solution from web video Caster and local cast with a link to YouTube video, load the page, click on the play button at top, select the highest resolution option, use the 3 dot option and select open in another app, select local cast. Select play now, then click on playback speed.
Is there a way to get a link to a plex video to use with this? It is a bit complicated amount of user interaction.
For the record, plex developers please add varable playback speed!
+1. Always thought this existed already too I tried to use it 
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I use Pluralsight, Youtube and VLC to go through video tutorials at ~1.5x speed. Would be great if it was available in Plex!
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+1. I Also like to consume my media at a faster speed like 1.5x up to 3x. At the moment I can achieve this in the Plex Web Player by using any HTML5 Video Speed controller plugin (like Video Speed Controller for chrome) or by using a bookmarklet (which injects code into the video player)
// bookmark a link with following javascript as link to set 1.5x PlaybackRate
javascript:document.querySelector('video').playbackRate=1.50
// bookmark a link with following javascript to set 2x PlaybackRate
javascript:document.querySelector('video').playbackRate=2.00
// Well, set any playbackrate you like as a value
Mind, this is a fix for a browser like Chrome (verified to work), Firefox and so on. Unfortunately, I don’t know any way to resolve this issue within the dedicated apps on mobile devices, set-up boxes or smart tv’s, so I still hope this feature will be added to plex eventually.
Edit:
Well, the bookmarklet example was perhaps better done by @marky421, @Retiixx or @Sylvain_France and the chrome plugin was also previously suggested by @deering59 or @RhythmicNature
I guess I didn’t read the complete post before responding.
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+1
just get it done
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This really needs to be implemented as I can no longer watch the news at regular speed. 2.25x keeps me up to date with minimal time wasted.
+1 How ridiculous that this still hasn’t been implemented, there have been so many times where I have had to watch a show for homework and I could only watch it at 1x speed. I’m probably wrong, but I don’t feel like this feature would take very long to make.
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I’m as happy to see the huge interest of the plex community in seeing this feature implemented as disappointed to realize that this was initially raised five years ago and it has been repeatedly ignored. I wish there was some transparency about why this has been the case.
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