On Thursday 26 April 2007 20:43, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> According to the 'man', one should be able to toggle the mplayer size
> with command-1,2,3,4 and achieve fullscreen with command-f. Assuming
> that 'command' is the Ctrl key, then Ctrl-F does in fact make the
> player window full screen, however the video stays the same size.
> Thus, I have a mostly-black screen. Ctlr-1,2,3,4 do nothing, however.
>
> Am I assuming incorrectly? Neither the Tux key nor the Alt key modify
> the window when pressed with F, thus I assume that the command key is
> Ctrl.
In mplayer man page I can find the following:
(The following keys are valid only when using the quartz video output
driver.)
option + 0
Resize movie window to half its original size.
option + 1
Resize movie window to its original size.
option + 2
Resize movie window to double its original size.
option + f
Toggle fullscreen (also see -fs).
Are you reffering to this? (Maybe you have different version of mplayer, mine
is 1.0rc1-4.0.1 hand-compiled). If so, in order to have this working you
should use the appropriate driver, if you have it (I guess the option is
"-vo quartz", never used it).
But regardless to that, by pressing f during playback or with option "-fs" it
should go fullscreen. If it doesn't enlarge the image and just adds black
bands around the image, then I guess the problem is video driver (at least it
was on my machine).
To see supported video drivers, do
$ mplayer -vo help
Among several of them, "xv" should be there. It is the default video driver,
and should work. To verify, do
$ mplayer -vo xv somefile.avi
If it complains, xv does not work. The issues for that can be various, it
happened to me when I installed nvidia-legacy drivers from Livna. However, I
do not recall ATM what I did to repair this. At the time, I was experimenting
a lot trying to get beryl to work with my nvidia card, and in the process
broke a lot of things, including mplayer.
Tomorrow when I get to the office I will maybe be able to remember, and post
it.
HTH, :-)
Marko
Marko Vojinovic
Institute of Physics
University of Belgrade
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