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i installed FC6 recently. i installed mplayer from a rpm repositary. the problem is that when i run mplayer with the default options i get the error msg X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
when i run mplayer with -vo x11 option the video plays but when i try to make it fullscreen the clip iam playing does not scale. i used the -zoom option and i got fullscreen to work but iam getting it in frames. i believe that -vo xv is the optimal output driver which is not working for some reason.
please help me to get mplayer working somehow. thanks.
xv is the generally preferred option within X, and it is massively more efficient than X11 output, which is very basic and cpu intensive. the xv output requires funtional XVideo extensions to be running though, the status of which you can see by runnign xvinfo. show us what the output of that is. also there are other options (run mplayer -vo help to list them all) such as xover, which is also good and generic, but might still require xv extensions, not sure off hand.
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