[mdlug] mplayer full screen

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Deepan wrote:
>    Hi All,
>    I am running Fedora core 7. When I play movies with mplayer, it does
>    not play in full screen. Even if I press f for full screen, it plays
>    the movie only in the center portion of the screen. I also tried
>    mplayer -vo xv movie.avi .. It plays in full screen, but dies after
>    sometime saying my system is too slow. I guess is has some thing to do
>    with the video cards.. is there a fix ?

Get a faster computer? Besides this there are several things worth
trying. First, you might try other drivers. If you have an open-GL video
card you might try "-vo gl". The gl driver hasn't worked well for me,
but I don't have any experience with Fedora, so your experience could
differ.

Another thing you can do is shutdown as many other programs as you can
before starting mplayer. In fact, if you are using gnome or KDE it would
probably be worth while to log out and select a lighter weight window
manager. TWM and WM2 are about the lightest available. Again I have no
experience with Fedora, so I can't help much here.

It might help some to give mplayer higher priority when you run it:
    nice -19 mplayer -vo <driver> movie.avi

One other option, though it is quite a bit of trouble, is to obtain the
source code for mplayer, then configure and compile it your self.
Situations like this are one case where it helps to run binaries that
are compiled explicitly for your hardware. I have seen this make the
difference between DVDs being barely playable, and playing well, on a
500 MHz Pentium III laptop.

I hope this helps
Raymond McLaughlin

>    Regards
>    Deepan