Add a playback speed property to VideoStreamPlayer

[nonunknown]

Describe the project you are working on:
A Racing Game

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project:
I'm using inside game videos to follow other game car behaviours, and using Engine.TimeScale, but
I was impressed why not videos are affected by it, if VideoPlayer Node has PlaybackSpeed variable I could adapt it to TimeScale myself.
Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation:
Add a playbackspeed to VideoPlayer Node
and/or make it be affected by Engine.TimeScale
Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudocode, mockups, and/or diagrams:

you can use
VideoPlayer.set_playback_speed(0....X)
VideoPlayer.affected_by_timescale(true/false)

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?:

Nope, there's no way

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?:
Its an enhancement for a built-in node

PS
I want to metion this issue, since I'm using ubuntu and only was able to use webm videos under 30fps to avoid black video

https://godotengine.org/qa/71720/why-do-webm-videos-stop-working-above-30fps-on-linux-ubuntu

[salalex]

Any news about this issue? I have the same need, as I'm developing a tool to aid manual video analysis and it needs to accelerate or slow down the video playback speed. Also seeking would be very useful.

[nonunknown]

@salalex this is not a issue, this is a proposal, this means that either one of the godot team will implement this or some community member that has knowledge will implement! So My suggestions are:

• Try to find some workaround on the internet
• Or use gdnative and implement your own!

[salalex]

Sorry if i used the wrong word, I simply used the term also GitHub uses.

[Calinou]

Due to the difficulty of handling video decoding, video playback will be moved out of core in 4.0. This means new video playback features won't be developed until then.

At this point, I would recommend using another engine or UI toolkit to implement a video analysis tool. Just remember that it will always be difficult somehow 🙂

[salalex]

Ok, thank you. 🙂