[MPlayer-users] fullscreen spanning multiple displays with Xinerama?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/4/06, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:14:30PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > If I do:
> > mplayer -fs xineramascreen -2 test.mpg
> > I get this bizarre full screen effect on the 2nd display, however only
> > the left half of the movie shows up, and the right half is completely
> > missing (it doesn't show up on any other display).
>
> And what do the other displays show?

the desktop.

> Which -vo are you using and what is the graphics card? That sounds a lot

I'm using xv, and these are nvidia videocards.

> like the hardware just isn't able to display on more than one monitor.

they are displaying the window manager without any problems.  mplayer
is where this problem seems to begin.

I should note that if i just do "mplayer test.mpg" and manually resize
the movie to span across all 4 displays, that works, even though it
looks crappy (with the window mgr decorations, etc).

> I think -vo x11 -zoom should always work (does not have hardware scaling
> though and will almost certainly be too slow).

I just tried:
mplayer -vo x11 -zoom test.mpg
and that didn't seem to do anything at all.  I got the original size
movie on a single screen.  I retested with the previous
-xineramascreen option as well, but that didn't change the original
behavior either.


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