Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer

[gustavo halperin <ggusti@gmail.com>]

Commonly this problem is if you haven't glx enabled with direct 
rendering enabled:
' glxinfo |grep "direct rendering" ' and see if there is yes or no.
But there are other methods in order to get full screen, just use 
another video out,
like sdl:  mplayer -vo sdl -fs <movie>, but this methods require more 
resources that
the used when Direct Rendering is enabled.

 Gustavo Halperin

Tom wrote:

> [15/07/2005 -- 16:01u] Vegard|drageV:
>
>  
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> > When playing a movie with mplayer (from a terminal window), I try to
> > zoom the image to fit to screen with the fullscreen option (mplayer
> > -fs). This option only makes the screen black around the movieimage,
> > not fitting the actual image to the screen.
> >    
>
> If you compiled MPlayer yourself, you'll need the relevant X development
> package, IIRC libxv-dev. Google should've been able to tell you that,
> though... :-)
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-204.html
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
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