[MPlayer-users] How To: best way to rescale

[Oliver Seitz]

> The resolution is part of the container information (AVI/MP4/MATROSKA).
> Whatever this info says, that'll play. There is no recording involved.

Sorry, I thought the encoded video frames were encoded in a certain
resolution. So, if I set the video resolution in the header to some other
value I had feared the video wouldn't decode at all. Well, it is no
straight video format, but yuv4mpeg e.g. has size information in the
header only, and if this information is altered, the video can not play
anymore.

Besides, If a true video format allows to have the video some resolution
differing from the frames, it might still not play on the limited hardware
as frames of more than 800x600 would have to be decoded and then scaled
down to what's given in the file header. I can't imagine the home theatre
player is stupid enough to cheat itsself like that.

Greets,
Kiste