mplayer: picture does not scale

bamsesbilledbog · 03-07-2006, 11:35 AM

I have installed mplayer. A prebuilt package to ubuntu. I then installed the codecs manually. But when playing a video, the picture does not scale. It is in a little box (most likely the video resolution). If I play with fullscreen-option it is the same. Anyone know what this is about?

acid_kewpie · 03-07-2006, 02:44 PM

i assume you are using a less than ideal video output, i.e. x11. use xv instead if you can and you'll get scaling video and over 50% less cpu usage. you can add the -zoom option if you can only use x11, but it's a sucky video output, so use xv if you can.

bamsesbilledbog · 03-07-2006, 05:36 PM

thanks. it works perfect with xv.