Question

Hello, How would i go about slowing down a video playing within the

Answer 1

Yes. using the playbackRate attribute for the video object. Its a floating number, - is slower, positive is faster.

<video id="myVideo">Video you want to control</video>
<script>
var vid = document.getElementById("myVideo");
vid.playbackRate = 1.0; // for normal speed
vid.playbackRate = 2.0 // for double speed
vid.playbackRate = 0.5 // half playback speed
vid.playbackRate = -1.0 // rewind
</script>

here is a great list of attributes and events for the video tag
http://www.chipwreck.de/blog/2010/03/01/html-5-video-dom-attributes-and-events/
this may also help depending on your programming level
http://www.slideshare.net/jimjeffers/building-an-html5-video-player