[wplug] mplayer full screen

Patrick Wagstrom patrick at wagstrom.net
Fri Mar 14 10:13:07 EST 2008


Deepan Chakravarthy wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am running Fedora core 7. When I play movies with mplayer,
> it does not play in full screen. Even if I press f for full screen,
> it plays the movie only in the center portion of the screen. 
> I also tried mplayer -vo xv movie.avi .. It plays in full screen,
> but dies after sometime saying my system is too slow. I guess is 
> has some thing to do with the video cards.. is there a fix ?

Are you using the proprietary ATI drivers?  Many versions of those drivers 
have broken support for XV.  Basically, you can't do it with them.  You may 
want to try -vo gl (or -vo gl2) and see if that makes it any better.

--Patrick


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