[MPlayer-users] Playing movies fullscreen with fbdev

[Jacek Rembisz]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:33:12AM +0200, Henric Andersson wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> The problem with fbdev is that even if I specify the width to exactly what
> the resolution is (don't even think it cares for screenw/screenh when using
> fbdev) mplayer will quit saying that the display isn't at the required
> resolution (it scales the movie upto 640x576 on a 640x480 screen when
> playing mpegs for example). Almost all movies where the height doesn't
> exceed 480 when zoom:ed (and fullscreen) works just fine.
> 
> What option am I missing here? I've tried expand and it works great (makes
> the movies go fullscreen) but a movie that is bigger than the screen will
> not play. I also tried adding scale=640:480, which works fine on any 4:3
> movie, but screws up the aspectratio on any non 4:3.

try scale=-2:480

> 
> Bottomline:
> Does anyone have a clue as to what parameters will work with every movie and
> make them play fullscreen with the correct aspectratio for a specific
> resolution? (and yes, I _must_ use fbdev as it is now... DirectFB is also a

and fbdev:vidix doesn't work too?

Jacek