[MPlayer-users] Mplayer unattended+fullscreen

[Paul TT]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:59:47 +0100
"Ethan Arnold" <ethan at arnold.net> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I finally got my videos playing with mpeg2 acceleration now.
> 
> But still I need to click in the window every time I start playing a
> movie, and it is not fullscreen. If I specify -fs I still have to
> position a window, but then it aborts with:
> 
> X11 error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> 
> How can I get mplayer (i'm starting it from a remote PC via ssh) to
> immediately start playing the video fullscreen with no local
> interaction needed? And not abort :-)

did you try:
mplayer -fs -zoom whateveryouwant.avi
?

if it doesnt' work yet, pls tell us waht is the window manager (if
there) you are using, and the video output driver :-)