[MPlayer-users] Fullscreen bug

[Corey Hickey]

Jiri Hofman wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> I feel, I've found a bug in MP 0.90. Or am I doing anything bad?
> 
> My config file contains:
> fs=no
> 
> I launch "mplayer movie.avi".
> 
> It is launched in a window. I press "f" to switch to fullscreen mode. 
> It works. MP in a verbose writes here:
> 
> [x11] NET style stay on top ( layer 1 ). Using state
> _NET_WM_STATE_STAYS_ON_TOP.
> [xv] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1600 dh: 1200
> [xv-fs] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1600 dh: 1200
> 
> Now, in fullscreen, I press "q" or the movie ends. The MP is quit.
> 
> Now, I launch "mplayer movie.avi" again.
> 
> What a surprise, it doesn't run in the window but in fullscreen. When
> I want to press "f" to leave fullscreen, it doesn't work. MP in the
> verbose mode writes here:
> 
> [x11] NET style stay on top ( layer 0 ). Using state
> _NET_WM_STATE_STAYS_ON_TOP.
> [xv] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 1600 dh: 1200
> 
> When I quit MP and start again, it will run in fullscreen again.
> 
> The only way how to switch back to window mode is to launch "mplayer
> -fs movie.avi" and then press "f" and then quit MP. MP in the verbose
> mode correctly writes here:
> 
> [x11] NET style stay on top ( layer 0 ). Using state
> _NET_WM_STATE_STAYS_ON_TOP.
> [xv] dx: 0 dy: 0 dw: 320 dh: 240
> 
> After next start, it runs in the window. Until I quit it in fullscreen...
> 
> This bug is very unpleasant when I want to use mplayer as a plugin in
> Mozilla (using Plugger 4.0). The movie window is not correctly
> swallowed into a Mozilla window.
> 
> Please, fix it or tell me, where the configuration problem is. I tried
> to experiment with -fstype option, but without an effect.
> 
> Version 0.90pre9 didn't have this problem.
> 
> Thanks, Jiri.
> 

I can't reproduce that here. I haven't seen this reported before,
either, so probably there's something rare about your setup. Please
read DOCS/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there so the
members of this list will have enough information to help you.

Also, since you say 0.90pre9 didn't have that problem, you can take
the initiative and try to find the first date of CVS that has your
problem.

Old CVS snapshots are here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/cvs/
and new ones are here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/

Pre9 came out on 2002-10-24, right? So download the 20021024 snapshot,
build it, and test. If you still do have your problem, then perhaps
something changed in your system instead of mplayer; try building pre9
again to be sure. If instead your problem is not in 20021024 cvs, then
download-build-test a snapshot from about halfway between then and now,
say 20030101. Work your way around from there until you find two
adjacent snapshots where the first works and the second doesn't.

I know that sounds like a lot of work, but if you care about this bug,
it should be worth your while and make the developers' job of fixing it
much easier.

-Corey