[MPlayer-users] Fullscreen is not fullscreen

[RC]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:22:13 +0000 (UTC)
David B <david.bruhn at bredband.net> wrote:

> I'm using Mplayer-1.0pre6a on FC 1 and when playing any video in fullscreen
> mode the image is exactly as small as in the original mode.

You aren't using a vo that supports hardware scaling (eg "-vo xv" or "-vo xvidix"), and since you need software scaling with your vo, you need "-zoom" on the mplayer command-line.

It uses much less CPU time if you can use "-vo xv".