Alternating playback speeds in MPC or other media players?

[PhakeDC]

Hello, I have a bunch of CBT's encoded in MOV and AVI formats, but the tutor speaks in a slow fashion and I want to speed that up a bit. WMP 9 which I have on my WinXP machine only supports Windows Media, and MPC doesn't let you choose what rate to play the videos back (2x is too fast).. Is there any way to speed up the videos without having to re-encode them all? Is there a freeware WMP plugin that enables this functionality? Cheers for any help/suggestions!

[celtic_druid]

You could use mplayer "["/"]" adjust speeds (you can set the increments to whatever you like). It doesn't preserve pitch though, still for less than 2X it should sound ok.

[PhakeDC]

Thanks for recommending MPlayer it works fine except no sound on MOV files. I have the Quicktime addon from KLite.

[celtic_druid]

mplayer supports mov's and has faad for aac decoding, libavcodec can handle qdm2 and others. Is there an error? Did it fail to load an external decoder?

[PhakeDC]

Playing D:\0602.mov.
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
VIDEO: [smc ] 640x480 8bpp 1.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
copyright: Copyright 1996-2002
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffsmc] vfm: ffmpeg (Apple Graphics (SMC) codec)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [qtaudio] QuickTime Audio Decoder
failed loading qtmlClient.dll
ADecoder preinit failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x706C6351.

It loads FFDShow's own codec apparently. And it fails to locate the QTime decoder. Should I install Apple Quicktime? I'm not a fan of their software but if there's no other way :)

Edit - All I had to do was copy QTMLClient.dll to Mplayer directory and it worked! I downloaded the codecs zip but placing them in the Codec directory produced no results. Is there a path variable to set to point Mplayer to that directory?