additional mplayer video drivers?
 

originally i had problems playing any video files, i found at that this was because the selected video driver in mplayer had some conflictions (or something) with my video card. however the X11 (XImage/Shm) works with my video card, however, it wont let me play in fullscreen. if i tell it to go to full screen (either commandline or with gui) it only makes the area around the video black and it centers the window. so im asking are there any other drivers i can get so i can get full screen playback?

Try:
mplayer -vo xv filename.avi

OR the -zoom option with x11 is supposed to also work.

What Video Card, and what you get when you type:
mplayer -vo help

Cool

this is what i get when i type mplayer -vo help

Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90-RPM-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/ynadji/.mplayer/config
Available video output drivers:
xmga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay in X11 window (using /dev/mga_vid) mga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay (/dev/mga_vid)
tdfxfb 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3/Voodoo5
xv X11/Xv
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
fbdev Framebuffer Device
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
null Null video output
pgm PGM file
md5 MD5 sum
mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to "stream.yuv")
vesa VESA VBE 2.0 video output
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)

the WARNING this is not optimal part kinda caught my attention. also i have a crappy video card that came with my Sony from Wal*Mart (w00t) SiS or something or other... i really should buy another graphics card....

Yeah, you'll wanna use xv (it's listed):
mplayer -vo xv

Also, to 'optimize' it, you'll need to recompile Mplayer, and check the configure script to disable runtime cpu detection.

Cool

i get this error when i use mplayer -vo xv

vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support, and read Xv section of DOCS/video.html !
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.


Exiting... (End of file)

:confused:

I have the same problem on my laptop which uses ATI Rage Mobility M4 card and uses the ati rage 128 mobility driver.

I have tried the -zoom option, -vo xv, and -vo sbl. In all three cases, the video plays in slow motion, while the audio plays in normal speed. Upon exiting, I get an error about the system being too slow. (It is a PIII 900 MHz with 192 MB RAM). Any ideas to resolve this? If I play the video without "zoom", everything plays fine, except for the size of the image and black bars surrounding it.