Okay, after searching the archives for some information on how to get 
fullscreen working properly, I figured some stuff out.

I saw in the archive that someone decided to use freevo without a window 
manager, and that seemed like a good idea.

So, I hopped to it, and it worked like a champ with the following in my 
.xinitrc:

xv -root -quit <path to image.jpg>
exec xterm -bg black -fg white &
exec /usr/local/freevo/freevo

Now, that got me fixed right up perfectly. The main reason I had to do 
this was freevo ran fine fullscreen... however, when I went to play a 
divx movie, it would go "partially" fullscreen. Meaning, fullscreen but 
it would show part of the titlebar, and that was very annoying.

I could not get the titlebar to go away no matter how I called mplayer 
in the freevo_config.py file.

So, that is the background of WHY i had to do this (i use blackbox as a 
wm)

so...

I played around with all the mplayer command line options I could think 
of and it just would not work properly. Either it would put the window 
halfway over, or whatever it just flat out wasnt right.

Thats when I dropped to a console while mplayer was playing and noticed 
some extra command line options that should havent been there.

A:

grep -Fir monitoraspect *

returned another file that was adding command line options to my mplayer 
without my knowledge.

This file:

src/video/plugins/mplayer.py

Had some extra stuff on the command line that was screwing me up. So 
when I removed that, it now works like a champ. I am calling mplayer 
with the following command line options, and only these:

-ac mad -fs -geometry 50%:50%

Hope this helps someone else in the future.

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