Plex Playback Speeds

[moovee]

The new Plex olayback speed feature has a few posts, but I wanted to combine the main two points of those suggestions. This feature is great and I’ve been waiting years for it, and so glad there’s at least a way to change speeds, but…

1. There needs to be an easy way to change the speed on the fly. Three levels deep in the menu is impossible especially if you are having to do it every time you stop playback and then start again. It’s great that it carries through from episode to episode but the feature needs be able to play different speeds without having to go into a separate menu screen.

2. In addition to being able to change the speed on the Fly, we also need to be able to change the speed permanently. Somewhere in main settings set it to the speed you choose for everything you play. It should remain on until turned off.

Hopefully those are simple features that can be added at some point in the near future. Seems to me like it would just be a simple menu issue, so hoping this is something we see soon. For now, I continue to use Plex web and cast it to my TV so that I can set the Chrome extension that always keeps my speeds where I last set them. Would love to have the feature in the Plex app itself.

[tom80H]

What you’re suggesting has already need addressed in existing feature suggestions. Please comment/vote in those to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes. Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread as a duplicate.

@moovee

1. There needs to be an easy way to change the speed on the fly. Three levels deep in the menu is impossible especially if you are having to do it every time you stop playback and then start again. It’s great that it carries through from episode to episode but the feature needs be able to play different speeds without having to go into a separate menu screen.

Make Playback Speed Control Easier to Access

First, thanks for adding Playback Speed, it’s a great addition. However, it could use a minor GUI tweak to make it more usable. It would be much more useful and accessible if the button to change speeds was located on the left next to Subtitles, Audio Track, and Quality when you first activate the initial overlay popup – ideally in the first click to the left from Play/Pause. Currently, it’s buried under Playback Settings, and so it takes 21 clicks to change it from 1x to 2x and return to the…

@moovee

2. […] we also need to be able to change the speed permanently. Somewhere in main settings set it to the speed you choose for everything you play. It should remain on until turned off.

Remember Playback Speed Setting Unless App is Restarted

I’m thrilled that Plex now supports playback speed control! I noticed in the guidance page that changing the speed from “normal” resets when playback stops. Could this be changed so the speed setting is remembered unless the app is restarted?

[moovee]

As I said, both seem to have been addressed separately. I’ve come to expect Plex to implement a fix to something on the binary level, when the real solution was to address issues together. I have seen posts for each separate but that’s why I listed them together. It took like 5 years for the playback speed feature to arrive, and over the years both of the issues I referred to were mentioned, but for some reason weren’t implemented when the speed issues were finally implemented. I’m fine closing this one, just wanted to make sure you knew why I created the combined feature request. Hopefully🤞 Plex considers both in a future release.