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Thats the thing, at 18%-23%, you don't really notice the change in pace, and you save yourself about that same amount of time.

Sure the consensus is that I should wait until I have time, however there is nothing wrong with having the time to watch it, and it taking 20% less time.

I do have the time, but why not it be 20% shorter ?

Obviously not the same is true for songs, but this should be rather simple to implement as well ?

LOL at 2001 space odyssey.

It is not a simple change, it would involve resampling the entire audio stream and something equal to video (as done on ff). It is IMO a really unnecessary feature which most likely something like 1% of the population will use. I am sure there exist a tool which resamples the video and audio for you which you can use. XBMC will most likely never include this feature. If you want to take a crack at it the source code exist and you can see how "easy" it is and you are more than welcome to put your patches on trac and who knows, perhaps they will get pulled in.

EDIT: AudioEngine will however make the resampling simpler but you still need to make the video player understand that you are not just simply fast forwarding.