[MPlayer-users] mplayer full screen not really full screen (FreeBSD 8.2 amd64)

[Tom Evans]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I am using amd64 freebsd 8.2 release with mplayer compiled from ports.  I cannot get mplayer to fill the entire screen,  only a small square remains in the center of the output.  I have compiled novueau in the /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau/ port and it is working, but not giving me full screen.
>
> [olivares at quadcore ~]$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep 'nouveau'
> (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
> (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
> (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "nouveau"
> [olivares at quadcore ~]$ uname -a
> FreeBSD quadcore.home 8.2-RELEASE-p0 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p0 #0: Sat Apr  2 15:06:58 UTC 2011     root at hybrid.freebsdgr.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> [olivares at quadcore ~]$ mplayer -vo help
> MPlayer SVN-r33137-snapshot-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
> Available video output drivers:
>     vdpau    VDPAU with X11
>     xv    X11/Xv
>     gl_nosw    OpenGL no software rendering
>     x11    X11 ( XImage/Shm )
>     xover    General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
>     sdl    SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
>     gl    OpenGL
>     gl2    X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
>     dga    DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
>     matrixview    MatrixView (OpenGL)
>     aa    AAlib
>     null    Null video output
>     mpegpes    MPEG-PES to DVB card
>     yuv4mpeg    yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
>     png    PNG file
>     jpeg    JPEG file
>     gif89a    animated GIF output
>     tga    Targa output
>     pnm    PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
>     md5sum    md5sum of each frame
>
>
> I have seen that there are some tricks that one can setup in ~/.mplayer/config to get some settings in there by default.  Any suggestions/advice/comments are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>

You need to show what mplayer says when you run it and it does not
display in full screen.

Also, why are you using nouveau instead of nvidia-driver?
nvidia-driver is much faster, better supported and has less bugs - the
only down side is that its not open source. If you just want it 'to
work', use x11/nvidia-driver

Cheers

Tom