In new versions of mplayer, they have added in a new audio filter called 'scaletempo' which basically lets you player audio faster or slower without changing the pitch (i.e. no chipmunk's effect). This is very useful for audio book playback/learning.

Any capable kind person to port it to diablo?

More information (including source & patches to 1.0rc2):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=279916
http://scaletempo.sourceforge.net/0/

Thank you in advance !