[MPlayer-users] resizing avi files to reduce size

[Chris Phillips]

> 	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:
> 
> mencoder file.avi -ovc divx4 -vop scale -xy 600 -sws 2 -oac copy -o output.avi
> 
> 	but it doesn't works, mencoder doesn't resize and the file size is
> around 800MB. What is the command line to resize a movie? Thanks.

well.. what he said... and also... the dimensions of a film has no direct 
relation to the file size. it depends upon the bitrate it is encoded with.

RTFM

chris
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