[MPlayer-users] fullscreen

[Steffen Barszus]

On Monday 30 September 2002 16:56, Chris Snyder wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> Samuel Liddicott wrote:
> >When people read "fullscreen" they are thinking of the picture, not the
> >border, so they naturally expect the picture to fill the screen, and are
> >surprised when only the border does.  Which is possibly even more
> > surprising if they are using SDL video output.
> >
> >We've seen this confusion often enough here, what I say should be obvious
> >(and perhaps is).
>
> No way-- I use fullscreen for the border all the time. The best thing
> about mplayer is that you can get it to do *exactly* what you need it to
> do. If you need full screen + zoom, then specify that on the command
> line. There's no need to consolidate these options.
>
> Get past the learning curve and you'll love it too!
>

Yes right , and at least you can specify all options you want in you 
config-file 

cat .mplayer/config
# Write your default config options here!

;o) 
So write in there your -zoom and everything is fine for you ...

Greets

Steffen