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

[thewade]

Quoting Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte at yahoo.com>:
>
> 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.
>

Right-click doesn't give me any configuration options, just copy url, 
fullscreen, and a few others: very minimal. So I edited .mplayer/config 
to include vo=xv and vo=x11. The vo=xv didn't even finish loading the 
clip (which I bet means the video device could not be initialized). 
vo=x11 didn't work either, but removing the vo line won't play videos 
at all now so I don't know if something got hozed when I tried vo=xv... 
Plus whenever I try to play a video to test some change I have made to 
the mplayer/config file Firefox hangs.
I wil try x11 after rebooting gdm.

I would do GL except I am using a low latency modified kernel and the 
ati-fglrx kernel module won't build with all the spinlock changes in my 
kernel, and I don't know how to fix the ati code. It's looking for some 
spinlock "#declare"'s to be defined... So no GL acceleration for me.

I'll keep hacking away. Thanks for the help!
-thewade