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I've been watching videos using mpv, a derivative of MPlayer, using the default options. When I increase the speed, pitch-shift kicks in so that while people sound like they're speaking faster, they aren't squeaky and hard to understand like they're on helium.

The pitch-shift (in the manual as scaletempo) works fairly well, but I've noticed that YouTube does it significantly better.

How does YouTube shift pitch, and is there any way I can improve MPlayer's pitch shift (by tweaking the scaletempo options, f.e.)?

Mokubai
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I don't believe that there is a way to improve mpv, unless you are an mpv developer. Maybe using another player will give better results.

Try using VLC with the --rate switch. VLC uses its own codecs for many formats and is perhaps the world's best media player.

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  • I can confirm, that VLC has a better sounding (less stuttering) scaletempo algorithm. I always use mplayer, but if I need to watch a video *much* slower, I use VLC, because it just sounds much more natural. – erik Aug 05 '18 at 10:40