[MPlayer-users] geometry option working?

[Mark Zealey]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:56:36AM +1100, Darryl Luff wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi, I've been trying to use the -geometry xx:yy option to 
> mplayer/gmplayer, but it seems to be ignored. Whatever I specify the 
> video window comes up center screen. I've tried all the supported -vo 
> options for my machine but it doesn't seem to make a difference. And I 
> tried putting geometry = 100:100 into ~/.mplayer/config and it didn't 
> make any difference.
> 
> In the source (geometry.c) there is an error message that should be 
> displayed if the -geometry format is wrong, and the player should exit, 
> but that isn't happening. Even if I specify \mplayer -geometry 
> somerubbish ...'. It's like the geometry code isn't being called at all.
> 
> I'm using the RPMS's from freshrpms.net on redhat 8.

It's only used by a few vo drivers, i think at the moment it's only fbdev,
tdfxfb and xv. it's easy enough to add to other drivers, but i don't know them
well enough to do it really. (xv was added recently so you may need a newer
version of mplayer to use it (cvs is good))

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