From 5ffe4aac8f00d8f3386a7e82533f5a3375f707d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jos=C3=A9=20Ol=C3=ADvio=20M=2E=20Pedrosa?= <root@rwx.ovh>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:25:06 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Save playback speed rate, and restore when playing a video
 again

---
 CONTRIBUTORS.md                            | 1 +
 src/components/playback/playbackmanager.js | 3 +++
 src/controllers/playback/video/index.js    | 9 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index f0eb21e6df..6811962cc7 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -113,3 +113,4 @@
  - [tikuf](https://github.com/tikuf/)
  - [Tim Hobbs](https://github.com/timhobbs)
  - [SvenVandenbrande](https://github.com/SvenVandenbrande)
+ - [jomp16](https://github.com/jomp16)
diff --git a/src/components/playback/playbackmanager.js b/src/components/playback/playbackmanager.js
index 85da076c5d..722ca522ce 100644
--- a/src/components/playback/playbackmanager.js
+++ b/src/components/playback/playbackmanager.js
@@ -3602,6 +3602,9 @@ class PlaybackManager {
     setPlaybackRate(value, player = this._currentPlayer) {
         if (player && player.setPlaybackRate) {
             player.setPlaybackRate(value);
+
+            // Save the new playback rate in the browser session, to restore when playing a new video.
+            sessionStorage.setItem('playbackRateSpeed', value);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/controllers/playback/video/index.js b/src/controllers/playback/video/index.js
index 96bb5eeb30..0ae93a63ed 100644
--- a/src/controllers/playback/video/index.js
+++ b/src/controllers/playback/video/index.js
@@ -446,6 +446,7 @@ import { appRouter } from '../../../components/appRouter';
                 updatePlayerStateInternal(event, player, state);
                 updatePlaylist();
                 enableStopOnBack(true);
+                updatePlaybackRate(player);
             }
         }
 
@@ -1253,6 +1254,14 @@ import { appRouter } from '../../../components/appRouter';
             }
         }
 
+        function updatePlaybackRate(player) {
+            // Restore playback speed control, if it exists in the session.
+            const playbackRateSpeed = sessionStorage.getItem('playbackRateSpeed');
+            if (playbackRateSpeed !== null) {
+                player.setPlaybackRate(playbackRateSpeed);
+            }
+        }
+
         shell.enableFullscreen();
 
         let currentPlayer;