[MPlayer-users] Linux Video Wall

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 07:41:09PM -0300, Manuel Barros Reyes wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Reimar Döffinger
> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Btw. try running MPlayer with -v and look out for a line like
> >> vo: X11 running at 1360x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
> > In my case that is the reason for all the issues, the DisplayWidth
> > is (possibly intentionally) broken it seems, e.g. for me
> > it returns the resolution I used when X was started, but not the
> > one that's actually used currently.
> > In the past (and probably even now if you configure it via xorg.conf) this
> > would be the size of all xinerama monitors combined, and that's what it
> > has to be for MPlayer to work.
> 
> I get something along these lines (output with some parts deleted) it
> says something like what you mentioned but dont understand how to
> correct it if this is wrong:
> 
> vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)

Something like
-fs -screenw 2000 -screenh 768 -fstype none -xineramascreen -2
might work (of course change the values to match your real dimensions
of all displays combined).