scaletempo audiofilter is missing

[liorda]

Binary package hint: mplayer

I'm a student, and my university supplies us with video lectures, which free me from attending boring lectures, and catch up on my free time.

Mplayer latest builds allows the use of the "scaletempo"[1] audio filter, which allows playing videos faster, while keeping the pitch intact. this is crucial for students.

I'm using latest Hardy, and that option is unsupported.

Please update the mplayer package, since for now, i'm forced to use windows media player, which supports that option.

thanks

[1] see "audiofilters" section on http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.txt

[Automaton26 (automaton26)]

This audio filter is extremely useful when watching slow-paced videos (many can be watched at 1.33x or 1.5x speed without any comprehension problems).

I've moved over to Kubuntu AMD64 9.04, and was hoping it would ship with the latest version of mplayer, but I'm still having to use an "old" Slackware machine to use "scaletempo".

[Catalin Patulea (cpatulea)]

FYI, a *.deb of mplayer with scaletempo can be downloaded from the SF project:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=220192&package_id=279916

Working on 8.04 (hardy) with:
mplayer -af scaletempo -speed 1.3

(note, "scaletempo=X" fails with "Could not parse arguments")

Though Ubuntu should still include this filter in the official mplayer package IMO.

[Seán de Búrca (leftmostcat)]

With current Karmic, scaletempo is supported. My guess is that this bug can be closed.