[MPlayer-users] fullscreen question - works on one machine, doesn't on another

[Kevin DeKorte]

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thewade wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am loving the mPlayer mozilla plugin and have yet to explore using
> mplayer instead of totem-xine as a dvd player. Right now though I am
> having some trouble with the mozilla mplayer plugin from Firefox on FC4.
> 
> I have a Pentium laptop with a 1600x1200 screen and I used yum and the
> livna.org's version of mplayer - MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-4.0.2. This machine
> works fine except for occasionaly locking up Firefox. This is a known
> bug and is fixed in CVS.
> 
> My problem is with another machine, a AMD64 laptop in i386 mode with a
> 1280x900 screen - also MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-4.0.2. This machine has not
> had the problem with locking Firefox, but when I try to go to fullscreen
> mode I just get a black screen with the video playing at the same size
> as the normal view centered. I thought this might be because of the
> weird aspect ratio so I included in the ~/.mplayer/config file:
> monitoraspect=16:9
> But that doesn't seem to do anything. I looked through the mplayer man
> page but couldn't find anything.
> 
> How do I get the AMD machine to do fullscreen and why didn't it work by
> default like the Pentuim machine?
> 
> Thank you for the help and for working on mPlayer!
> -thewade

I was going to suggest setting the vo to x11 in mplayerplug-in. You should be
able to do this with the right click->configuration and set it. Any of the
options xv,gl or x11 should give the video properly scaled. However, gl will
only work if you have a recent mplayer and accelerated opengl.

Kevin

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