[MPlayer-users] Encode HD to lower resolution to play without "your system is too SLOW"

[Hans du Plooy]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 12:11 +0400, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> VIDEO:  [avc1]  1920x1080  24bpp  24.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
> ...
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
> ...
> Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio) decoder)
> ...
> 
> While trying to play this, I've got "your system is too SLOW" even with
> '-ao null -vo null' (what a world - 3.2 GHz P4 with HT is too slow ... :-().

Forgive me for asking the obvious question, but are you sure your
graphics drivers are installed and working properly?  I can play the
file in your link on a 1.8ghz Turion notebook with ATI graphics (shared
RAM) without the fglrx driver.  I have to pass -vo x11 because xv
doesn't cope so well with my screen being smaller than the movie's
dimentions.

I'll leave your questions for the folks who are more versed in encoding
than me :-)

Hans