[MPlayer-users] Full screen mode isn't actually full screen

[Corey Hickey]

Brian Dean wrote:
>> Try mplayer -zoom
> 
> Thanks, that worked.
> But for some reason I get a "your system is too slow to play this" message now.
> I have a pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with 512 mb of ram.  I recently installed the latest
> version of Ubuntu.  I didn't have this problem when I was running Fedora core 4.

That's because you didn't read the FAQ entry I gave you. :)

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#id2544728

Like the FAQ says, software scaling is slow. Try to use a different vo 
driver first, like '-vo xv'.

-Corey