Hello eveybody,
I am trying to play movies using mplayer in the console using the command

mplayer -vo fbdev moviefile

but The video size is small (at the top left of the screen) and there is no audio.
my questions is how to get the audio to work (it works fine using the mplayer GUI under KDE) and how to play it in full screen mode??

Someone might wonder why I am trying to play the movies in the console if its already
working under KDE? well, the answer is that its not quite working. I am having a Trident Microsystems CyberBlade video card, running Debian sarge (kernel 2.6.3) and KDE 3.2. Using mplayer (I tried other players and got the same result) when tryin to play a movie a get a completely green screen (green lines) , audio is ok. Note that this behavior is completely random. sometimes it occurs,sometimes not.sometimes I close mplayer and open it once again and it works.sometime it dont.sometimes just rebooting gets it to work.
At the beginning I thought may it is a problem with the player (.deb file) itself,so I complied
mplayer myself and got the same result.
I have googled for that problem,and found somebody having the same exact problem and saying that it might be a problem with the trident driver.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

try this:

mplayer -fs movilefile

let me know if this works.

I used the command:

mplayer -vo fbdev -fs moviefile

and it did work in the whole screen. but still the resolution of the movie
is very small.just a small rectangle in the middle of the screen. And still no
sound .

thanx for your reply.

are you using the right sound output driver? do this:
mplayer -ao help

Thanx LavaDevil94 for ur addition. Sound now is working as well.
The full command I used:

mplayer -vo fbdev -ao oss -fs moviefile

Now remains the problem of the size which I mentioned earlier.The movie
played just appears as a small rectangle (not its original resolution) in the
middle of the screen.

Any suggestions?

I have been struggling with the exact same problem. It appears that mplayer is trying to use hardware scaling (when you use the -fs flag) which isn't supported by the hardware.

I've got my mine to work (finally) by using resorting to the vesa video driver!! The same but with framebuffer causes garbage on screen



mplayer -vo vesa -zoom -xy 1024 -double -sws 2 filename

where:
-zoom tells mplayer to use software zooming
-xy tells mplayer to scale keeping aspect to 1024 wide
-double tells mplayer to use page swapping to reduce flickering
-sws 2 tells mplayer to use a slightly better scaling algorithm (but needs CPU)

Take a look here for more info / options:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en...html#yuv-cards


Mike

Man It worked, however I have to add that u need to login as su to use the vesa.
many thanx once again for your help .

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