Harsh J

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MPlayer doesn’t expand videos in Fullscreen-mode

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If your mplayer doesn’t seem to be zooming into, or expanding a video to fit the screen under fullscreen mode (Shows black bands all around the video, preserving its actual size), then it’s probably because of the video driver your mplayer is using. I had set mine to xv sometime back in order to play a few Real media files, and though it did zoom in on those files it confounded me when I tried other normal video files like AVI, etc on it.

The solution is to switch the video driver (Preferences – Video tab) to x11, which supports zoom.

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June 24th, 2009 at 11:18 am

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  1. Err.. X11 is a very OLD slow driver! I use vdpau (used to use xv earlier) and it zooms just fine!

    Kalpik

    24 Jun 09 at 2:59 pm

  2. Hey, aren’t you a ThinkDigit forum member. I just chanced upon your profile and thus checked out your bog to see if it’s still active.

    comp@ddict

    24 Jun 09 at 5:17 pm

  3. Kalpik – I don’t have such a driver, probably cause my Nvidia card (7 series) isn’t as new as yours!

    Harsh

    24 Jun 09 at 10:32 pm

  4. comp@ddict – Yes I am, or was. I don’t go there any more :)

    Harsh

    24 Jun 09 at 11:44 pm

  5. Harsh, yes, your card wont support vdpau, but i should work properly with xv!

    Kalpik

    25 Jun 09 at 7:37 am

  6. Kalpik – Doesn’t zoom in automatically, unless I launch mplayer with the -zoom parameter. Though SMPlayer zooms it in fine on xv, it misses out on the sound at times.

    Harsh

    25 Jun 09 at 9:54 am

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