[MPlayer-users] all black with -vo xv

[Rob Berquist]

>I have a Matrox G400, Atlon 1Ghz, and Mandrake 9.0.  I've been using
>MPlayer successfully for some time now, but something broke.  I just
>installed the latest version of all the dependencies (alsa, sdl,
>mga_vid.o, etc) and the latest version of MPlayer.

>Every time  I play a movie all I get is black.  I think it is using -vo
>xv by default.  If I use -vo x11 it will play just fine but since its
>x11 driver I cannot resize the video.

>Any advice?

>Thanks in advance,
>Michael


Use the -zoom parameter. 
mplayer -vo x11 -zoom movie.avi