[MPlayer-users] xinerama full-screen problem, workaround

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:23:08AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 May 2006 at 05:11, Michael Holland wrote:
> > Am using CVS:   dev-CVS-060519-10:18-4.0.2    (cvs cannot connect to 
> > mplayerhq.hu now)
> > 
> > To reproduce: (recapping)
> > Set xinerama with second screen bigger than first.
> > Start mplayer, drag window to second screen, press 'f' for fullscreen.
> > You should now see black bars on the right and bottom, as mplayer
> > is using the size of the first screen.
> 
> I don't think it's a bug. A missing feature, maybe. MPlayer doesn't
> detect the VO window has been moved to another screen which has
> a different resolution.

If you have proper xinerama support, it is a bug.
So a few questions:
Are you using the radeon driver in MergedFB mode? If yes, the
pseudo-xinerama implementation of that setup seems to always claim that
both displays have the same resolution, so no MPlayer bug.
The next thing is, that MPlayer will fullscreen to the size of the
Virtual Screen, so in case you have your smaller resolution display
setup in a way that allows you to scroll around, that is the problem.
Though in none of these cases -xineramascreen 1 should make any
difference.
So with the two exceptions above, it works for me with the snapshot from
here at least: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/~rtogni/snapshots, tested with
both the opensource "radeon" and nVidia's driver.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger