VLC Speed Controller

Speed Controller Extension for VLC Media Player 3.x
This extension allows you to quickly switch between multiple user-configurable custom speeds, while also providing a GUI for playback control.
Inspired by the functionality of the Google Chrome extension Video Speed Controller, as well as VLC extensions Playback Speed Manager and Jump to time Previous frame v3.

The extension is published at addons.videolan.org.

Features

• type in playback speed
• decrease playback speed
• increase playback speed
• toggle between 1.0x speed and previous playback speed
• set playback speed to user configurable preferred speed
• rewind / advance video by a set number of seconds
• jump to the next frame
• play / pause the video

Installation

Put the vlc_speed_controller.lua file in :

• Windows (all users) %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\

• Windows (current user) %APPDATA%\VLC\lua\extensions\

• Linux (all users) /usr/lib/vlc/lua/extensions/

• Linux (current user) ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/

• Mac OS X (all users) /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions/

• Mac OS X (current user) /Users/%your_name%/Library/ApplicationSupport/org.videolan.vlc/lua/extensions/

Restart VLC.
Note: create the directories if they do not exist.

How to use

• To open on Windows / Linux, go to:
  View > VLC Speed Controller
• To open on Mac OS, go to:
  VLC > Extensions > VLC Speed Controller

Interface

Below are some screenshots of the interface.

Author

Andrei Hutu ([email protected])

License

This extension is released under the GNU General Public License (GPLv3)