[MPlayer-cygwin] Inspiron 8600

[Sascha Sommer]

On Tuesday 03 August 2004 17:15, Gene Dascher wrote:
> I am running MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.2.3 Windows Beta under Windows
> XP Pro on a Dell Inspiron 8600 Laptop with an NVidia Geforce4
> 4200 display adapter.  I am using a docking station and have
> a second monitor attached that I extend my Windows desktop
> onto.  When I run mplayer to view a video file, a small
> movable mplayer window appears in my primary display (laptop
> display) and the secondary display (attached CRT) displays
> the video full screen.  I only want the mplayer window to
> show up in my primary display without the full screen take
> over of my secondary display. I have tried using -vm -adapter
> flags, but those don't do what I want.  Can someone help me?
> What other information do you need about my system?

Strange. I just tested it again with a mobility radeon 9700
and it works as expected. eg
mplayer file
displays the normal movable window on the laptop display
mplayer -fs file
displays the fullscreen window on the laptop display
on the secondary screen I always see the rest of my desktop.
When I start mplayer -vm -adapter 2 file
it plays the video fullscreen on the secondary screen.
And the laptop display shows the desktop.
Is it possible that the docking station switches the displays
so that your laptop display becomes the secondary display?
Still there shouldn't be any problems then.
What do you have in your config file?
Can anyone else reproduce this?

Sascha