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Hi,
I have installed MPlayer (mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5.i386.rpm) and resolved all the dependencies it needed.
However, I have a problem with viewing movies.
Movies play,but only in a 2X2 " screen.If I hit 'double size,the window size doubles but the size of the movie stays the same:about 2 " square.The same thing happens if I hit fullscreen on Mplayer.The window fills the screen bt the movie stays at 2X2 inches.
basically though, the reason it's not filling the scren is probably that you're using a crap video output method, i.e. X11, go into the preferences wherever they are (hint - use command lines!!!!) and choose xv instead. should scale fine then, and use less cpu power
Originally posted by acid_kewpie basically though, the reason it's not filling the scren is probably that you're using a crap video output method, i.e. X11, go into the preferences wherever they are (hint - use command lines!!!!) and choose xv instead. should scale fine then, and use less cpu power
when I choose XV, I don't get a picture showing.The only one that gives me a picture is X11
I've got 3 options to choose:xv;X11;xvidix and only X11 gives me a picture
If I choose xv I get an error message box come up saying:
error opening/initia;lising the selected video out (-vo) device
Ok,
I figured out the Zoom thing and that what you are asking me to do is start the mplayer from the command line.
I've also figured out that what you mean by : </path/to/file.ext> is the name of a video.
Ok,I started a video like you said and I could resize the screen ok.However,in hte command line I got lots of info saying things like:
************************************************
**** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
************************************************
even though it played ok.
I have some more questions:
1.will I always have to start the Mplayer from the command line in order to get this zoom thing working?Shouldn't there be this option in the gui?
2.those system is too slow messages are presumably to do with another posters suggestion here that X11 is not a good option. Are there any others I can try or import ,that will help,considering that the other 2 I have don't play the movies I have .
1. there may well be an option there, but i'm not familiar with the gui, as the commandline really is so so much quicker and easier... why load a gui when you're not even going to use it while watching a film...?
2. again, try -vo xv that really should work no problems, but at the same time, you are using a third party RPM, so we couldn't say how it's been configured. check "mplayer -vo help" for a full list. if xv isn't there, get the real rpm's from mplayerhq.hu or get the source and compile it yourself.
try adding the -framedrop option to the command line, or specify it in your .mplayer/config file to set it permanently.
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