Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer

[Josh Hansen <lists@josh.aros.net>]

Vegard|drageV wrote:
> 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.
> 
> How do I fit the image to the screen?
> 
> Cheers Vegard
> 
> 

You simply need to use "xv" as the video output.  Launch mplayer with
"-vo xv", or set it to xv in the preferences if you use the GUI.

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Josh H.