[MPlayer-users] help - making videos run full-screen

[Charles Howse]

On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:56 am, Joonas Koivunen wrote:

> > My video card is an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP w/ 8MB ram.
> > When I installed XFree86, this card was not on the list, so I selected
> > the ati driver, X is working fine at 1024 x 768.
>
> You don't say what verion of XFree86 you have.. Ati drivers must have
> undergone most of the driver development recently..

Hello Joonas, thank you por your prompt and polite reply!  :-)

>From /var/log/XFree86.log...

XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF]

>
> > My videos will play, with audio, but they will not resize any bigger than
> > 150%.  I'd like them to run full-screen, like they did in WindowsXP.
>
> That is because you don't have xv support built-in your graphic cards
> drivers. Xv provides hardware scaling, which means that the cpu doesn't
> have to do anything in order to get the movie scaled.. At the moment cpu
> does all of the job, 1.5*original_size being the most what your cpu can do.

I see...

>
> > Can someone point me to where I can look to see how to do this, or give
> > me a tip on how to get this done?
>
> I bet you ain't the only one living with a lousy ati card and *bsd :) I'd
> check that I have the latest XFree86, then go after XFree86 mailinglists
> and/ or irc channels (irc.freenode.net/#xfree86 for example) and google.
> Since scaling works in the full screen with xp, it means that your card is
> capable of hardware scaling.

I will take this path first.
Thank you!