[MPlayer-users] slowing down a video clip

[Corey Hickey]

Andrew Collier (colliera at nu.ac.za) wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hello,
> 
> i have a video clip (in a .mpg file) of some phenomena occuring on the surface of the sun in which the action happens VERY quickly. i would like to slow it down so that i can use it during a presentation and still have time to point out the various interesting things that occur in it.
> 
> i have tried to do this with the 'convert' code in the imagemagick package and it works for some files but inexplicably fails for others. i am sure that i should be able to do this with mencoder but am not sure how. could anyone give me some pointers?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> best regards,
> andrew collier.
> 

Try using the -speed option. :)

 From the manpage:
-speed <0.01-100>
               Set playback speed rate.

$ mplayer file.mpg -speed 0.1

(Or use -fps, if you like that better.)

-Corey