>> Tomorrow when I get to the office I will maybe be able to remember, and >> post >> it. > > That was your work machine! Bad, bad! Given my two job descriptions, that is just what I am supposed to do with my work machine. Ok, maybe a little abuse of it ;-). After all, there is no boss to prevent me from doing it... :-) Anyway, I got around to remembering what I did about the problem, but I guess it will not be very helpful to you. Namely, I tried various types of nvidia drivers (plain, legacy, 96xx) in order to find which would work (too lazy to read the instructions), and in combination tried various options in xorg.conf, and ended up hosing it. In the meantime, mplayer was being configured && compiled && installed in the background (talk about multitasking), and it seems that it did the configuring and autodetection part while the video was in a very bad state, so did not compile in support for xv driver. I ended up having to use cvidix for any sensible playback, even after I set up X properly. The answer was to recompile mplayer again now that X was functioning correctly. That fixed all issues. But the typical effect was *no fullscreen*, and it had to do with the mplayer's video output driver not having the ability to provide it. The "-zoom" option works, but it is a "software" zoom, which takes more processor time that I lacked. Anyway, if it works then ok, use it, but in my opinion "-zoom" is a workaround, and the cause for the problem is not removed. Maybe. :-) Best, :-) Marko Marko Vojinovic Institute of Physics University of Belgrade ====================== e-mail: vmarko@xxxxxxxxxxxx
