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Is there way to play videos backwards? I found only a way to play it slower or jump to a previous chapter.

VLC cannot playback video backwards. (most digital video playback devices cannot do this)

(most digital video playback devices cannot do this)

But some can e.g. WinDVD can do backward play for instance with DVD

A backward play support would be nice for video formats that support it.

I don't think that this is possible with VLC's current architecture without re-writing major parts. We are always looking for volunteers though

Hi,

I am also curious why the reverse playback is not possible with vlc. If vlc cannot playback backwards, then why there is a libvlc_MediaPlayerBackward event? And why it is created and how is to be used?

I found this event here on these two links:
https://github.com/Orochimarufan/QtVlc/blob/master/QtVlc/VlcMediaPlayer_p.cpp
http://distro.ibiblio.org/vectorlinux/stretchedthin/MMBD/source/Programs/vlmc/vlmcgit/git/src/vlmc-10112011/src/LibVLCpp/VLCMediaPlayer.cpp

thank you in advance for your prompt reply!

This is the command to jump backwards (see also: forward) in time during playback, but not to play in reverse.

Playing video files is extremely hard and for some media even impossible due to how video encoding works. Please see wikipedia for details.