[MPlayer-users] Fullscreen Bug

[daniel carter]

oliver wrote:
> Then, if i wish to watch this at a 
> lower resolution, to say, use TV out, i switch with xvidtune or 
> something, down to the desired resolution. X now creates a virtual 
> screen size of 1280 960 (even though I told it not too) which doesn't 
> have to be a problem, but when i Fullscreen size mplayer, yeah it'll 
> fullscreen to the current desktop size, and not window size.
> 
> I'd say there's a few ways to do this nicer. First, there could be a 
> check to size to resolution instead of desktop.


This has been bugging me ever since i started using the GPLed nvtv tool 
to enable TVOut on my nvidia card.

I'm just submitting a patch for this...

If your XServer supports the Xf86VidMode extension then it uses this to 
read the actually screen resolution.