[MPlayer-users] How to output video to TV fullscreen (display overlay)?

[Phillip Pi]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:35:43AM -0800, Phillip Pi wrote:                                                                    
>>I used: gmplayer -xineramascreen 1 -fs finding_nemo-tlr1_fs.mov ...                                                                                                                                                                                         
>For testing purposes, I would use mplayer.  Probably not the problem,                                                          
>though.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

OK. I just read another poster's post that his doesn't do fullscreen with 
GUI player. I will try regular player.


>>The TV doesn't show Finding Nemo trailer in full screen. I still see                                                         
>>it as if it was a cloned desktop.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

>I'm not sure, if I understand what your screens look like.                                                                                                                                                                                                    
>Do you have the same (cloned?) picture on TV and monitor?                                                                      

Yep when I use TwinView.


>Are you just annoyed by black borders on your TV or does MPlayer                                                               
>really not use all of the desktop space?  

It didn't go fullscreen/wide screen on the TV. Basically, I still saw my 
parts of desktop. Let me try mplayer command first (do it in a few 
hours). :)