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PLEASE give us some basic "speed up" and "slow down" and ESPECIALLY "return to normal speed" buttons. Trying to do this via hot-keys is much harder since you have to remember the settings, and it takes constant attention to return to normal speed.

Why are there "skin contests" when simple usability features still aren't there? I do appreciate the dev's efforts and I want VLC to be my player of choice, but every time I fire it up stuff like this frustrates me.

Thx
Arbie

PLEASE give us some basic "speed up" and "slow down" and ESPECIALLY "return to normal speed" buttons. Trying to do this via hot-keys is much harder since you have to remember the settings, and it takes constant attention to return to normal speed.

Assuming you are using Windows/Linux (i.e. the Qt4 interface), the speed up/slow down buttons are at the ends of the seek bar/slider. Also if you look at the status bar (bottom of window) the current speed is displayed. Right click on that you can you adjust a vertical slider to your desired speed.

Arite.

Arite is right

Thanks! I thought those were "Jump to Beginning" and "Jump to End", because of their position. It was hard to believe that VLC didn't have such controls, but I'm too used to assuming the worst.

It would still be nice to have a "resume normal speed" function in there somewhere, but this solves one of my main problems with the program.

Arbie