MPlayer Speed Up Playback w/Audio Adjustment

Today's video and podcast players have a very useful feature that allows playing back the video/audio at an increased playback speed. Hour-long podcasts can be listened to in 45 minutes. While mplayer allows increasing/decreasing your playback speed using keyboard shortcuts, the audio rate changes result in changes to pitch. Folks begin to sound like the chipmunks, or the late Barry White. You can…