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Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer - fun



hi ya vegard

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Vegard|drageV wrote:

> > 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?

mybox# glxinfo |grep "direct rendering"
xx>	direct rendering: No

doesnt seem to be required to get full screen

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

mybox# mplayer -v
xx>	MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.4

mybox# mplayer  -zoom -fs baby.mpg
xx>	full screen with "-zoom -fs" worked for me
 
> > 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.

mybox# mplayer  -vo xv -fs baby.mpg

xx>	It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
xx>	Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
xx>	DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!

for completeness

mybox# mplayer -xo sdl -fs baby.mpg 
	did whacky things to the movie.. oh well

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

ditto

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for those that is poking around for dynamically adding subtitles without
modifying the original *.mpg files

mybox# mplayer  -zoom -fs -sub baby.SubTitle.txt baby.mpg

	http://linux-video.net/Samples/Mpeg1/
	along with other sample mpeg movie trailers

for more fun ..
	i will be playing with memencode ( someday soon, before end of
	july-2005 ) to encode some movie trailors off of the dvd i bought

c ya
alvin
 



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