I will try to answer all your hints in this mail: > Click the button with a square in the mplayer control... I'm running mplayer from commandline, since gmplayer is not able to play the movie
> Commonly this problem is if you haven't glx enabled with direct > rendering enabled: direct rendering is enabled, wonder why it won't work automaticly? > You should also investigate the -zoom option. I will try that, but not now since the next hint worked > You simply need to use "xv" as the video output. Launch mplayer with > "-vo xv", or set it to xv in the preferences if you use the GUI. This helped. Thanks to all of you, you just saved a movienight!!! You are the best!!! Cheers, Vegard On 7/15/05, Josh Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vegard|drageV wrote: > > When playing a movie with mplayer (from a terminal window), I try to > > zoom the image to fit to screen with the fullscreen option (mplayer > > -fs). This option only makes the screen black around the movieimage, > > not fitting the actual image to the screen. > > > > How do I fit the image to the screen? > > > > Cheers Vegard > > > > > > You simply need to use "xv" as the video output. Launch mplayer with > "-vo xv", or set it to xv in the preferences if you use the GUI. > > -- > Josh H. >

