[MPlayer-users] fullscreen spanning multiple displays with Xinerama?

[Lonni J Friedman]

So does this work for anyone?  Does anyone have any other suggestions?

On 8/4/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/4/06, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:14:30PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > If I do:
> > > mplayer -fs xineramascreen -2 test.mpg
> > > I get this bizarre full screen effect on the 2nd display, however only
> > > the left half of the movie shows up, and the right half is completely
> > > missing (it doesn't show up on any other display).
> >
> > And what do the other displays show?
>
> the desktop.
>
> > Which -vo are you using and what is the graphics card? That sounds a lot
>
> I'm using xv, and these are nvidia videocards.
>
> > like the hardware just isn't able to display on more than one monitor.
>
> they are displaying the window manager without any problems.  mplayer
> is where this problem seems to begin.
>
> I should note that if i just do "mplayer test.mpg" and manually resize
> the movie to span across all 4 displays, that works, even though it
> looks crappy (with the window mgr decorations, etc).
>
> > I think -vo x11 -zoom should always work (does not have hardware scaling
> > though and will almost certainly be too slow).
>
> I just tried:
> mplayer -vo x11 -zoom test.mpg
> and that didn't seem to do anything at all.  I got the original size
> movie on a single screen.  I retested with the previous
> -xineramascreen option as well, but that didn't change the original
> behavior either.