When I play video files in MPlayer, sometimes the video size is small.

When I tell MPlayer to double the size of the video, it only doubles the size of the MPLayer windows, not the actual video size.

My question: How can I increase the actual video size in Mplayer?

you mean like hitting 'F' during playback?

Use either a better video output device:
mplayer -vo xv filename.avi

OR:

mplayer -vo x11 -zoom filename.avi

OR whatever vo you use, the x11 is just 1 example, the key there is the -zoom option.

HTH

Cool

hey guys....i also would like to know how come when i play my dvd using either mplayer or xine, i can't hear the sound of it...the picture also sometime stop for split of a second...why is that?? but the quality of the picture itself is really good....only when i play vcd or svcd i could hear the sound and see the picture....thanks and hopefully you guys could help me...

How did you get your DVD working? I can't get mine to work - it just keeps reading and reading and locks my computer.

Did you do anything special or did it work right off the bat?

Thanks - this did the trick.
However I should have been more clear because I am actually using GMPlayer in Mandrake. But I did change the video output like you mentioned and I get full screen the way I want. Thanks

hi MICRO420....well i just installed the libdvdnav and libdvdcss and that's it ...but i still can't hear the sound of it...don't know how????
it says that:

Cannot find codec for audio format ax2000

and in the console, it says:

Trying to force audio codec driver family mp3lib ...
Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not available (enable it at compilation)
Requested audio codec family [ac3] (afm=libac3) not available (enable it at compilation)
Requested audio codec family [hwac3] (afm=hwac3) not available (enable it at compilation)
*** Try to upgrade /home/SPONGEBOB/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x2000.

but i don't know what to do with it in term of upgrading it....please help

Thank you!! I installed those things you mentioned and now my DVD works!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!! Fortunately, my sound works fine.

I don't know if I can help you with your sound (kind of like the blind leading the blind). I hope some of these other gurus can help you. Good luck and thanks for at least helping me.

well dvdnav and dvdcss have nothing whatosoever to do with sound....

i'd guess you installed the version that came with suse. this is deliberatly crippled so you can't play DVD's. get the REAL version from the hompage.