Hi, Now mplayer has got vesa driver with which u can play vcd's and video files in full screen on the console. It works quite well. Only requirement is your bios should be vesa 2.0 compliant. No svgalib etc. needed. :-) Earlier with svga driver I was not getting full screen. But vesa driver is great. Thanks to its developer Nick.
Here is what is here in mplayer docs : --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.3.1.12. VESA - output to VESA BIOS This driver was designed and introduced as generic driver for any video card which has VESA VBE 2.0 compatible BIOS. But exists still one reason of developing of this driver - it's multiple troubles with displaying movie on TV. - You have chances to watch movies if Linux even doesn't know your video hardware. - You don't need to have installed any graphics' related things on your Linux (like X11 (aka XFree86), fbdev and so on). This driver can be run from text-mode. - You have chances to get working TV-out. (It's known at least for ATI's cards). - This driver calls int 10h handler thus it's not an emulator - it calls real things of real BIOS in real-mode. (Finely - in vm86 mode). - Most important :) You can watch DVD at 320x200 if you don't have a powerful CPU --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peace. -- Rajesh : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Killing a Process (#3) LOST #150 To kill a process by name, use the killall command. To kill a failed fetchmail session on tty1 as an user, log into another console, and issue the command "killall fetchmail". Be careful with this command as root, since all instances of the program used by *all* users will be killed !!! ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
