[MPlayer-users] Converting size of a movie file.

[Corey Hickey]

Achim Dannecker wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> thanks for the response, but I tried this option earlier with the -ovc
> copy option (I thought that is the way just to but the extra thing above
> and below) but this does not work. Now I tried it again but with -ovc
> lavc ... then this thing works fine.
>
> Dont know if this is a feature or a bug.
>
> Thanks Achim


Right. When you modify the video in any way, it HAS to be re-encoded.
That's not a limitation of mencoder - if you add/remove video, the
stream is different and thus must be encoded again.

The audio can, however, be done with -aoc copy, unless you alter it too.

-Corey