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

[Hans du Plooy]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:24 -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Take a look at the status line, at the A-V indicator (audio-video 
> synchronization). You'll see the indicator value grow when the video is 
> difficult to decode and your system can't keep up; when the video is 
> easy, the value will shrink. Here's a line where there's lots of desync.
> 
> A:  35.7 V:  25.4 A-V: 10.238 ct:  0.023 762/762 126%  0%  1.9% 516 0

OK, I stand corrected.  It goes up to about 4.  I guess the extra 180
lines throw it over the edge - 1920x900 plays smoothly with good sync.
It just doesn't fit on my screen...

> > If I pass -nosound it doesn't do the "too slow"
> > at all, even if I do other stuff at the same time.
> 
> The warning message triggers if the A-V sync gets too far off; with no 
> audio, there is no sync, so the message never shows.

Oh, OK.  I didn't know the "too slow" messages was A-V specific.

Every day I learn something more :-)

Hans