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I have a video of a tennis match whose

Resolution = 1280 * 720
Codec = H264
Frame rate = 50fps

(Copy paste from info given by totem media player)

My laptop is not powerful enough to play this video smoothly. How can I reduce the frame-rate of this video so that my laptop can play it? I have observed that my laptop can play videos with 25fps without an issue.

I use ubuntu. I wouldn't mind using windows to edit/re-encode this video.

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FFmpeg is multiplatform and will do what you want with a simple command line such as:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -r 25 output.mp4

where -r option sets the desired frame rate.

You can install FFmpeg from the Ubuntu repositories:

apt-get install ffmpeg

… or by building it from source, as explained in this tutorial.

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It might be worth trying the -sameq option to preserve quality. – slhck Sep 15 '11 at 7:23
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@slhck, It is. The video is pretty much unwatchable without -sameq – Abhijith Madhav Sep 15 '11 at 8:40
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