[MPlayer-users] How to stop mplayer from centering video on s creen?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:08:58PM -0600, Sage wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 18:40, Arpi wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Maybe mplayer knows more codecs, but xine sure scres higher on usability.
> > 
> > i've never questioned it, even more, i said several times already that most
> > of you users will be more happy with xine, it just click'n'worx while you
> > have to RTFM and understand tech details for using mplayer...
> > if you choosen mplayer, you'll get full control over the things happening,
> > and if you control it well, you'll get more stability, less cpu usage,
> > better image quality.
> > it's fact - it explains why do these projects co-exists.
> > 
> > 
> > A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> 
> I don't have any problem with RTFM... the problem is that the
> documentation does not mention anything about this particular problem.
> When mplayer starts to play any video file, the video window gets
> centered on the screen. Even if I have a playlist of several files, it
> does this at the start of every file in the playlist. I want to know how
> I can keep this from happening. Is there an option to stop this
> anywhere?

Put -fixed-vo at the beginning of the command line and it might work.
This can crash with broken vo drivers that haven't been fixed though!

Rich