[MPlayer-users] Encode HD to lower resolution to play without "your system is too SLOW"

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:11:43PM +0400, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have 1920x1080 HD movie which is (in the sense of audio/video structure)
> almost identical to 
> http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl1800/bbc_1080p.zip.
> I.e.
> 
> ....
> VIDEO:  [avc1]  1920x1080  24bpp  24.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
> ....
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
> ....
> Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) 
> decoder)
> ....

Try -lavcopts skip* options (see the man page). That might be able to
make it playable.

Rich