[MPlayer-users] How to output video to TV fullscreen (display overlay)?

[Phillip Pi]

>On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:04:08AM -0800, Phillip Pi wrote:             
>> [...] I was unable to find a way to output video from MPlayer         
>> v0.90rc2 to my TV from my LeadTek WinFast A250 GeForce4 Ti 4200 video 
>> card. I want it to play the video fullscreen (640x480 -- don't care if
>> it is in wide screen) on my TV so I can use my monitor to work on     
>> whatever.                                                             
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>If you are using NVIDIA's XFree driver, configure it for TwinView.      
>NVIDIA's documentation tells you how to do that.  This won't give you   
>best possible TVout quality, however.                                   
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>Then use MPlayer with -xineramascreen and -fs.                          

Thanks for the tip, Carsten. I already have TwinView working (saw my
desktop on TV and monitor). I just needed to get MPlayer to play a video
fullscreen/wide screen on TV so I can use my computer and monitor (e.g.,
surf on the Web, OpenOffice, or whatever) during the video playback. I
will try -xineramascreen and -fs parameters. Did I have do to compile
these features in earlier or does regular compilation already include
them? I did a regular compilation. I am at work so I can't test these
parameters. :(
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