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

[Phillip Pi]

> >>I used: gmplayer -xineramascreen 1 -fs finding_nemo-tlr1_fs.mov ...                                                                                                                                                                                         
> >For testing purposes, I would use mplayer.  Probably not the problem,                                                          
> >though.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
> 
> OK. I just read another poster's post that his doesn't do fullscreen with 
> GUI player. I will try regular player.

I tried it (mplayer -xineramascreen 1 -fs finding_nemo-tlr1_fs.mov). Both
monitor and TV went fullscreen, but I didn't want my monitor to go
fullscreen. I only wanted the TV so I can use the computer to work on
stuff during the video playback. Also, the TV doesn't show the whole
video (3/4th of it only shows). It cropped part of it.
 
 
> >>The TV doesn't show Finding Nemo trailer in full screen. I still see                                                         
> >>it as if it was a cloned desktop.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
> 
> >I'm not sure, if I understand what your screens look like.                                                                                                                                                                                                    
> >Do you have the same (cloned?) picture on TV and monitor?                                                                      
> 
> Yep when I use TwinView.
> 
> 
> >Are you just annoyed by black borders on your TV or does MPlayer                                                               
> >really not use all of the desktop space?  
> 
> It didn't go fullscreen/wide screen on the TV. Basically, I still saw my 
> parts of desktop. Let me try mplayer command first (do it in a few 
> hours). :)

I don't care about the black borders. I do prefer the widescreen version 
if the video is in widescreen mode. I basically want the video to fit on 
my TV.