[MPlayer-users] w32 gui - switch to fullscreen?

[Alain Barthélemy]

Le mardi 18 mai 2004, 11:49:17 ou environ Mikhail Ramendik <mr at ramendik.ru> a écrit:
> Hello,
> 
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > > For friends with Windows, I want a GUI win32 media player that would
> > > *work*. MPlayer/win32 is great but the UI is rather cryptic. So I turned
> > > to mplayer-windows-gui from 
> > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/ .
> > > 
> > > It works great. But I could not find a way to switch to full screen. Of
> > > course I can always maximize the window, but then the aspect ratio gets
> > > broken.
> > > 
> > > Is there any way to have this win32 version of gui-mplayer to display
> > > video on the full screen? If not, is there any other way, short of
> > > teaching them the key combinations to manage the "usual" mplayer? 
> > 
> > AFAIK the "f" key works just fine.... But perhaps hitting the keyboard
> > is too difficult for windows users? :)
> 
> It does not.
> 
> It works in Win32 mplayer commandline. But not in Win32 mplayer GUI.
> 
> I even tried copying the input.conf file from the commandline Win32
> mplayer to the GUI one. Didn't help. Apparently keyboard input is broken
> in Win32 GUI mplayer.
> 
> But in general, complicated management with the keyboard *is* too
> complicated for some Windows users. Hey, not me, but someone has to
> watch what I encode! 
> 
> I could give them Windows commandline mplayer, with the launcher that
> allows them to select a file (it's a "third party" build witn an
> installer, but seems to work ok). And then train them in keyboard lore
> for seek backward-forward, and to tune the audio volume?
> 
> Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
> 

I am stucked at work with the same O.S. from the Middle-Age and I found and
installed WinMPlayer (Google) on W2000. It is a nice GUI with a "Full Screen"
click-click button and the "f" keypad works (plus all other usual keypads).

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Alain Barthélemy
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