[MPlayer-users] Cannot play a full screen

[Paul TT]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 00:15:34 +1100
yh <jupiter.hce at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2008-03-07 18:50-0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> >yh wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I called mplayer to play a full screen, but it could only display a
> >>video in a small screen. I've got following debug messages, but have
> >>no clue on how to fix it. Any explanation of how should I fix it
> >>please?
> >
> >Did you try '-zoom'?
> 
> Right, that works with the full screen, but the audio was jamed.
> 
> >>PS: If I don't use -vo x11, it displayed ghost images of the same 
> >>content repeated in three columns.
> 
> >What VO did you try instead?
> 
> I tried with xv and sdl, which started double column images.
> 
> I tried with xover, xvidix, no output of the video.
> 
> >What are your available options ('mplayer -vo help' should list
> >them)?
> 
> mplayer -vo help
> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6,
> Model: 8, Stepping: 3)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE
> Available video output drivers:
> 
>   xv      X11/Xv
>   x11     X11 ( XImage/Shm )
>   xover   General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
>   gl      X11 (OpenGL)
>   gl2     X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
>   dga     DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
>   sdl     SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
>   fbdev   Framebuffer Device
>   fbdev2  Framebuffer Device
>   xvidix  X11 (VIDIX)
>   cvidix  console VIDIX
>   null    Null video output
>   mpegpes Mpeg-PES to DVB card
>   yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
>   jpeg    JPEG file
>   tga     Targa output
>   pnm     PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
>   md5sum  md5sum of each frame
> 
> Do I need to upgrade libraries, or if it is a hardware problem?

which video card do you have?
do you use any composition manager? like compiz or the like?