[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer full screen

[Jonathan Rogers]

rohitash panda wrote:
>   i installed Mplayer on Redhat 7.2.Even though i have the Xv extensions 
> library , it says it cannot use/find.Is it then because my video card 
> dosnt support X Video Acceleration(I have a trident card, dont know the 
> model, got to see it).I can play full screen with SDL,but i see blocks 
> which looks perfect in Windows Media Player.Is the quality with 
> SDL(fullscreen) not better.Is there any other way i can achieve 
> fullscreen with good output.

Does the quality reduce when you switch from windowed to full screen 
mode? If so, that's very strange. You can try other output modules, like 
"x11" if "xv" doesn't work. If Xvideo isn't available, signficant CPU 
time will be spent scaling the video up to full screen.

Jonathan Rogers