Cannot run MPlayer fullscreen

[riksweeney]

Hi,

Toshiba M70 with ATI MRx700 GPU

I cannot run any movies in fullscreen using MPlayer. By this I mean that if I switch to fullscreen the movie doesn't stretch to fill the screen. I expect that this is a problem to do with my ATI driver.

I downloaded the ati-driver-installer-8.22.5-i386.run file from ati and installed that on my laptop and could then change the screen resolution, but I cannot stretch the image in MPlayer. XMAME also reports that "DGA requires root rights", but there is no entry in my xorg.conf file to do with DGA.

Does anyone know what the problem could be? Have I downloaded the wrong driver?

Thanks

Richard

[LocutusOfBorg]

It could be a problem of the mplayer video output driver: be sure to use xv

mplayer -vo xv -fs myfile.avi

if it works, put this lines

vo=xv
fs=yes

in your ~/.mplayer/config file.
If you use the gui, set the right vidoe output driver in the config window

[riksweeney]

Originally Posted by LocutosOfBorg

It could be a problem of the mplayer video output driver: be sure to use xv

mplayer -vo xv -fs myfile.avi

if it works, put this lines

vo=xv
fs=yes

in your ~/.mplayer/config file.
If you use the gui, set the right vidoe output driver in the config window

Thanks, I tried a few of the vo settings and found one that works a treat.

Thanks a lot!

[dewangpm]

Originally Posted by riksweeney

Thanks, I tried a few of the vo settings and found one that works a treat.

Thanks a lot!

WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU TRY? IT WILL HELP ME. PLEASE TELL ME A DETAIL PROCEDURE. I AM VERY NEW SO HAVE TO TELL DETAILS.

PLEASE.

DEWANGPM

[johnnash]

Follow this here:
http://paulsdigitalworld.blogspot.co...ion-guide.html

Make sure you install everything (especially the codecs) and then switch the drivers in preferences. See if one works for you. If not, run mplayer in terminal, and post your error messages.