grendal Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I have tried to adjust my settings and if I want full screen, in Mplayer, its a kind of Black in white playback. I can get a very nice color playback, but it its a small area, and going full screen doesn't changethe size. Has anyone else had this problem? This is the first time I have had any problems with Mplayer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 (edited) It's probably your video driver. Have you installed it? I have a nVidia tnt2 card and couldn't get mplayer's playback working correctly until I got my nVidia driver problem my nVidia driver problem solved. Edited March 17, 2004 by scoopy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neutro Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 Use the option vo=xv If it works, change it in mplayer.conf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted March 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 Scoppy, I had installed Nvidia drivers, but as you found out, they were not ready for the new kernel. All is well now, Thanks. Neutro, not that I need to but where do you change that option? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neutro Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 This can be done on the command line (e.g. mplayer -vo help for more details on available video drivers), or in any mplayer config file (say, ~/.mplayer/config or /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf). I was suggesting this because one of my friends had by default vo=fb in his config file and had your symptoms concerning full screen not working. Anyway, it's good to know where to change these options; mplayer has litterally hundreds of options, which can be really usefull, say, for watching DVDs... e.g. mplayer dvd:// -chapter 6-10 -ao alsa9 -channels 6 plays chapters 6 to 10 of your DVD using full 5.1 surround sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 neutro reminded me of something else I had done. I changed that too, but I did it in the preferences ( right click on player) ... under the video tab. Prior to installing the video drivers, I was unable to choose the xv driver listed, it would not let me till I had a working nVidia installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted March 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 All I did was install the new drivers and it worked. But I figured more knowledge is always helpful. Eventually I'll play around with the settings more, but atleast now I can watch movies in full color B) and it looks good. But tweaking can be fun :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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