Fullscreen in Mplayer

[Dotan Cohen]

On 27/04/07, vvmarko at panet.co.yu <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> wrote:
>
>
> >> Tomorrow when I get to the office I will maybe be able to remember, and
> >> post
> >> it.
> >
> > That was your work machine! Bad, bad!
>
> Given my two job descriptions, that is just what I am supposed to do with
> my work machine. Ok, maybe a little abuse of it ;-). After all, there is
> no boss to prevent me from doing it... :-)
>
> Anyway, I got around to remembering what I did about the problem, but I
> guess it will not be very helpful to you. Namely, I tried various types of
> nvidia drivers (plain, legacy, 96xx) in order to find which would work
> (too lazy to read the instructions), and in combination tried various
> options in xorg.conf, and ended up hosing it. In the meantime, mplayer was
> being configured && compiled && installed in the background (talk about
> multitasking), and it seems that it did the configuring and autodetection
> part while the video was in a very bad state, so did not compile in
> support for xv driver.
>
> I ended up having to use cvidix for any sensible playback, even after I
> set up X properly. The answer was to recompile mplayer again now that X
> was functioning correctly. That fixed all issues.
>
> But the typical effect was *no fullscreen*, and it had to do with the
> mplayer's video output driver not having the ability to provide it. The
> "-zoom" option works, but it is a "software" zoom, which takes more
> processor time that I lacked.
>
> Anyway, if it works then ok, use it, but in my opinion "-zoom" is a
> workaround, and the cause for the problem is not removed. Maybe. :-)
>

I did not realize that the zoom was to be handled by the video card.
Thanks for the info.

Dotan Cohen

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