Playback Rate

Playback rate tuning

You can easily provide your audience with playback rate change options, thanks to our intuitive playback rate player module. For more advanced use-cases our player API will let you build a custom user experience. The playback rate module is only available for video content (e.g. not for audio-only player) but the playback rate API can be used with the audio-only player as well.

Player settings

speed: Boolean

Activate or not the playback rate module. Default: false.

speedRates: Array

Set the playback rate available values to be used by the playback rate module. Must be submitted as an array of numbers. Default: [0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 4].

Player code example - see this example here

<script src="https://cdn.radiantmediatechs.com/rmp/9.1.1/js/rmp.min.js"></script>
<div id="rmp"></div>
<script>
// Streaming source - HLS in this example
const src = {
  hls: 'https://your-hls-url.m3u8' 
};
const settings = {
  licenseKey: 'your-license-key',
  width: 640,
  height: 360,
  src: src,
  // Playback rate settings
  speed: true,
  speedRates: [0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 4],
  contentMetadata: {
    poster: [
      'https://your-poster-url.jpg'
    ]
  }
};
const rmp = new RadiantMP('rmp');
rmp.init(settings);
</script>

Playback rate API

Playback rate API events

ratechange

Fires when the playing speed of the video is changed.

Playback rate API methods

getPlaybackRate()

rmp.getPlaybackRate();

This method returns a Number representing the current playback rate. -1 is returned if this value is not available.

setPlaybackRate(rate)

rmp.setPlaybackRate(2);

This method will change the player playback rate to the Number set as input parameter. Decent values for playback rate ranges from 0.25 to 4 and can be increment by 0.1. Values outside this range may cause playback issues in some browsers.