Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer

[Vegard|drageV <vegardlr@gmail.com>]

I will try to answer all your hints in this mail:

> Click the button with a square in the mplayer control...
I'm running mplayer from commandline, since gmplayer is not able to
play the movie

> Commonly this problem is if you haven't glx enabled with direct
> rendering enabled:
direct rendering is enabled, wonder why it won't work automaticly?

> You should also investigate the -zoom option.
I will try that, but not now since the next hint worked

> 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.
This helped.

Thanks to all of you, you just saved a movienight!!! You are the best!!!

Cheers, Vegard



On 7/15/05, Josh Hansen <lists@josh.aros.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> Josh H.
>