[MPlayer-users] fullscreen playback

[Paul TT]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:21:19 +0100
Matthias Schweinoch <matthias.schweinoch at epost.de> wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> i'm running mplayer 1.0pre3-2.95.4 on a debian woody linux, and i'm
> having trouble with fullscreen playback: say i open a video file, the
> playback window defaults to the actual size of the video, say 320x200,
> for example. when i hit the maximize button (or toggle "fullscreen" via
> menu), the video window maximizes, but the actual video remains the same
> size - the rest of the window is just "padded" with a black background.
> what am i doing wrong?

i think you're using x11 video output (-vo x11)
try to use video output xv (-vo xv)
x11 without -zoom -fs doesn't scale correctly to fullscreen