On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:33:05 -0500 john q public <public at pitchblende.org> wrote: > when I use MPlayer in full screen mode I can never watch xawtv again > until I reset the X server. This sounds like the xv issue which has been discussed over and over again. Check the archives for a workaround, or see if new versions of xawtv have fixed this.