Can I degrade a video?

[goodtimes5]

I have this AVI video that won't play smoothly on my Mac because it is too high quality. Sometimes it even freezes my VLC Player.

Is there a way for me to degrade this video to something of lower of quality in order to play it smoothly?

 

[RatVega]

This is America, you can do anything you want!

Degrade it as much as you want, but the problem isn't "too high quality", it's excessive bitrate. The ATAPI interface on a CD/DVD player isn't designed for uncompressed video playback.

Load the clip to your hard drive, where you have 10-20X the data transfer rate. It should play fine from there. If not, convert it to .mov.