[MPlayer-users] Proper solution to my virtual X resolution + fullscreen + OpenGL output hack?

[Nghia Ho]

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> From: Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>
>To: Nghia Ho <nghiaho12 at yahoo.com>; "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports" <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu> 
>Sent: Monday, 10 September 2012 6:56 PM
>Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Proper solution to my virtual X resolution + fullscreen + OpenGL output hack?
> 
>On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 02:06:55AM -0700, Nghia Ho wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm running a virtual resolution in X at 1366x1024, which is larger than my laptop's native 1366x768, using the panning option in the Nvidia settings program on Ubuntu.
>> When playing a movie at fullscreen it positions the video in the middle of the virtual screen. This means I have to carefully pan the screen with my mouse until it is positioned correctly. It would be more convenient if it used the actual resolution instead of the virtual, so I can easily flick the mouse to the top left corner.
>> 
>> 
>> I found two threads in 2008-2009 regarding the same issues
>> 
>> 
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/58723
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/59873/focus=59901
>> 
>> but none of the command line options mentioned had any effect for me, maybe it doesn't work with the GL drivers?
>> 
>> Anyway, as a dirty hack I made this 1 liner modification to get what I want in vo_gl.c:
>> 
>> 
>> static void resize(int x,int y){
>> ...
>> 
>> commented out this bit around line 205:
>> 
>> 
>> //  matrix[13] *= scale_y;
>> 
>> This makes the video output display at (0,0) top left corner instead of the centre. This works for me because most videos I watch have the same aspect ratio as my monitor.
>> 
>> I'm hoping someone can point out a correct way of doing this. If not, maybe it should be a new command line option?
>
>You just need to disable most of the intelligence, something like this:
>-screenw 800 -screenh 600 -xineramascreen -2 -fstype -fullscreen
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This *almost* works. Because it's not running a true fullscreen (?), my windows manager (cinammon) taskbar still sits on top of the video window.