resizing video in mplayer

compu73rg33k · 12-22-2005, 01:54 PM

I have mplayer running and it works great. The only thing is I can't make the video bigger or smaller. When I resize the window, the window resizes, but it just puts black space around the video. The default size is pretty small, like 200x200. I want to watch things in mplayer fullscreen. Anyone know what's going on?

Simon Bridge · 12-24-2005, 12:44 AM

I had this when I used binary packages for the installation. There is a configuration option and a related dependancy that covers this only I forget what it is. When I compiled from source, I got to install the most needed depandancies and specify the options I wanted in the makefile. See www.mjmwired.net and the fedors install notes for mplayer there. They convert nicely to slack - you just have to translate the redhatisms.

alexisb · 12-29-2005, 03:39 PM

I was having a similar problem, I run "mplayer -h" and saw that pressing "f" while viewing the video you get full screen, you can try that, you can also use -x and -y when starting mplayer to set your resolution, but this wasn't too good and preferred using the "f" key.

Regards.

buwaleed · 12-29-2005, 07:56 PM

pass the -vo gl or -vo gl2 parameters on the command line when starting mplayer, or plain -vo to get more options and see which one works better for you.

devbro · 12-29-2005, 09:26 PM

i had the same problem and the solution is what buwaleed says.
it worked for me under gl and x11.

compu73rg33k · 01-15-2006, 02:55 PM

Oh excellent! Thank you so much. -vo gl worked perfectly.