Re: mplayer, ATI, and fullscreen display

[c q <rsnic hotmail com>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:55:32 +0100, Julien Le Houérou wrote:

> Hi, I installed mplayer and all dependencies from freshrpms.net, it went 
> to install and run perfectly. I won't compile from source anymore. 
> However when going in fullscreen mode the picture isn't resized and  
> black borders come all around to complete the fullscreen. No matter the 
> original size of the video its size never increases when going to 
> fullscreen.
> 
> My video card is an ATI Radeon 7500.
> 
> Have made a mistake in my XF86Config ?
> 
> I am using the default drivers provided by XFree. Is there a better one?
> 
> Anyone got this issue and/or having the thing ok?
> 
> Thx
> 
> -- 
> Julien Le Houérou
> 
> Université de Haute Bretagne
> Centre de Ressources Informatiques
> 
> julien le-houerou uhb fr


try setting the video driver in the preferences to x11/xv.