setSpeed method

Description

Update the speed of playback for the currently-loaded content.

The “speed” of playback is the average pace at which the content will be played. A speed of 1 indicates that the WaspHlsPlayer will try to play 10 seconds of media content in 10 seconds, a speed of 2 indicates that it will try to play it in 5 seconds, a speed of 0.5, and that will be 20 seconds and so on.

Calling setSpeed can only be done when the WaspHlsPlayer is in the "Loaded" state and thus when a content is currently loaded. Calling it in any other scenario leads to an error being thrown.

You may know the current speed of playback by calling the getSpeed method, note however that getSpeed may not be up-to-date yet if setSpeed has been called very recently. This is because getSpeed only returns the speed considered by the WaspHlsPlayer’s WebWorker and that WebWorker communication happens asynchronously.

Syntax

player.setSpeed(newSpeed);

• arguments:

  1. newSpeed number: The new playback speed to set.