[MPlayer-users] resizing avi files to reduce size

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:09:58PM +0200, Paco Brufal wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello,
> 
> 	I have a 770MB avi file and I'm trying to reduce the size to 700MB.
> The movie is 640x272, and I want to reduce the width to 600 and leave
> mencoder to calculate the heigth to keep aspect. I'm using this command
> line:

Just keep the video and reduce audio to 32000 hz 56 kbit abr or so and
it'll prolly fit fine. Reencoding video will lose a LOT of quality,
especially with -ovc divx4 instead of lavc. :)

Rich