How Do I Change Playback rate on a stream

[rydaler]

I would like to either speed up or slow down the play rate of a UDP stream. I can easily vary the rate at which the VLC recieves packets and I would like to adjust the actual player to vary display speeds. When I tried libvlc_media_player_set_rate it would set a value and then have no effect on the play speed.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You'd need to change the rate at the sender. Obviously VLC plays the incoming UDP stream at the speed at which it comes.

[rydaler]

So then player play rate is determined by computing power? that seems strange...I could speed up a file played directly using VLC's control interface with no system lag. I would have suspected that there would be a similar command structure for streams. If there is I would love to know

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The sender sets the pace. At the receiver of the UDP stream, there is no choice but to play back at the same speed (just like with TV).