[MPlayer-users] No black bars when using mga framebuffer video out

[Otvos Ferenc CADMUS]

> I have a Matrox G400 and use the mga_vid video out.
> When playing a video with:
> 
> mplayer -vo mga -fs -screenw 720 -screenh 576 xxx.avi
> 
> It plays the movie fine but does not create black bars above and below
> the movie so you can still see the terminal behind which is somewhat
> "disturbing" :-)

1. As I remember, it didn't work even with 0.60 ...
2. Try this (as you can read it in the doc):

clear; setterm -cursor off;mplayer -vo mga -fs -screenw 720 -screenh 576
xxx.avi -quiet >& /dev/null;setterm -cursor on