Variable playback speed

(My apologies if I have missed a request for this...)

 

It would be GREAT if there would be a client-side playback option (IOS, ROKU etc..) to playback media server content at faster than 1x speed. 

 

Why? You might ask.

 

Well I timeshift a lot of television/documentaries via PLEX and nowadays so many channels think their viewers have the attention span of a dead fly. So they talk s-l-o-w-l-y, repeat things every few minutes (coming up... you've just seen....) and stating the damn obvious.

 

With VLC I can playback stuff easily at between 1.3-1.5x speed and whilst the voice does go faster (with pitch protection?) I can still "watch" the documentary, or should I say have it more in the background and still not feel cheated.

 

Would that be possible.........?
 

 

(My apologies if I have missed a request for this...)

It would be GREAT if there would be a client-side playback option (IOS, ROKU etc..) to playback media server content at faster than 1x speed. 

Why? You might ask.

Well I timeshift a lot of television/documentaries via PLEX and nowadays so many channels think their viewers have the attention span of a dead fly. So they talk s-l-o-w-l-y, repeat things every few minutes (coming up... you've just seen....) and stating the damn obvious.

With VLC I can playback stuff easily at between 1.3-1.5x speed and whilst the voice does go faster (with pitch protection?) I can still "watch" the documentary, or should I say have it more in the background and still not feel cheated.

Would that be possible.........?
 

duplicate, pls vote here -> http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/57841-speed-control-on-videos/?hl=speed

Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate