[MPlayer-users] xv-fs doesn't take up all the available screen size

[Phil Oleynik]

Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I'll post logs as soon as I get back home, but meanwhile I'll 
> describe the problem.
> I'm running X.org at 1360x768, and I can play full-screen video with VLC 
> and mplayer using the SDL video-output driver; but if I use mplayer with 
> the XV driver, than I cannot get a real fullscreen: the movie only takes 
> 1280x768 maximum, so I have 80 columns of black pixels on the right side 
> of my screen. It doesn't depend on the movie, it's just what mplayer 
> allows me to do.
> I'll post detailed logs, but anyway I remember that when I switch to 
> fullscreen mode, I see two lines similar to these:
>
> [xv] width = 1360, height = 768
> [xv-fs] width = 1280, height = 768
>
> So it seems that it correctly recognises that my XV can do 1360x768, but 
> then it uses only part of it?
>
>   
Hello,
some graphic cards have very small allowed overlay size. Almost all 
Nvidia has 2048*2048, but some ATi cards has Xmax=720 (Rage,Rage 
128,Rage M). Maybe this is the point, what card do you use?

best regards, Phil