[MPlayer-users] lowres and h264

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Sean Zimmermann <svz90 <at> pipeline.com> writes:

> I then tried using lavdopts lowres=1. The file played at the correctly without
> any speed problems and took up considerably less cpu power. However, mplayer
> was only playing the upper-left corner of the video (instead of scaling the
> movie down, it cropped it). Is this normal, something I incorrectly configured,
> or a bug? I tried the lowres option with a normal divx/avi file and it scaled
> the file down correctly. I am using MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.3-DFSG-free on a system
> running Debian testing on ppc.

Apart from "Always test latest svn":
Yes, that's the way lowres=1 works for h264.
I often use -lavdopts skipframe=nonref to watch H264 HD content. An alternative
is to transcode to MPEG2.

Carl Eugen