[mdlug] mplayer full screen

[Jeff Hanson]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Deepan <codeshepherd at gmail.com> 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 ?

If you have an older system try other players like VLC which may have
less overhead.  I can't remember how much the players take advantage
of hardware video acceleration but check your drivers with glxgears
and glxinfo to see if OpenGL is working and configured correctly.