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In my most recent skin I navigate through video using either the scroller, or buttons that move speed up and slow down the video. i.e. vlc.faster() and vlc.slower()

This suits my needs nicely but it would be great to see what the current playback speed is. I was thinking that an easy solution would be to insert some text that displays the current playback speed, but unfortunately I cant find that option in the list of text attributes. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?

Many Thanks
Ed

This is indeed a missing feature. And it seems easy to implement. For instance, something like a %R for the current playback speed. I'll see if such a patch can still be submitted for the next major release.

Just thought I would give this thread a quick bump. With the release of 2.0 is this possible yet?

Good remark. The patch is still in my local dev repository. I'm going to commit it today in the main vlc rep and hopefully it should be backported for the next vlc2.0 release.

Thank you! If possible could you post in this thread when this gets released? Oh and thank you again!

2.0.1 will have it.

Dear Devs,

I have had a look around 2.0.1 but couldn't seem to find this feature or get it working?
Could you confirm whether it was integrated in the build?

Kind regards

You can use $R

Yes, $R was finally chosen and not %R as proposed initially in this thread.

The skins2 documentation has also been updated in the git repository, but it seems a manual procedure is needed to update the web site ..... jb maybe, do you know how to handle that ?

Thank you for all the support and answers! I appreciate all the hard work and have already implemented this in my skin. I had an idea about how this could be implemented in a far easier way (from the users point of view). The current playback speed could simply be displayed via the 'On Screen Display.' For example, if I speed up to 8x this could be reflected in text on screen, just as pause already is. Obviously, the playback speed of 1x would not be shown.

This would mean that it is not necessary to add %R to every skin. Furthermore, as OSD can be enabled/disabled in settings, users will still have a choice.

I have version 3.0.11 Vetinari and I am not using alternative skins. When I change the playback speed of videos, the current speed is not displayed anywhere. Neither on the panel nor in the OSD. Do I need to enable this feature somewhere in the settings, or is this player unable to display the current speed?