If the -v output is needed I will post it (give me some time) but I think there is nothing interesting in it ;) Now I am going to try describe the problem better: first: sorry for my poor english... Before I start mplayer I see my gnome desktom at whole screen :o) with -xvidix -fs -zoom -double mplayer do no vm switching, only output scaling.. but it preserves aspect ratio, so in many cases it leaves some unused space at top and bottom (or sometimes at left and right) of the screen. This is ok, but these places are not black - they are not cleared, so there I see my desktop (gnome panel with applets, etc.) in these places. Could they be black? Could it be simply solved by clearing all screen at mplayer start? May be mplayer tries to do that, because I see black rectangle in upper left corner for a while when mplayer starts to play a video.. may be the size of that rectangle should be multiplied by scale factor used to scale video? sorry, just guessing... Roman

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[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] When I use fullscreen -vo xvidix with a wide-screen video, I see bars with my X desktop content on top and on the bottom of the screen and the video is playing between them. Should theese bars be black? Or will it not be solved before libvo2?

please read bugreports.html (you should always provide the output of mplayer -v).

Also describe a bit better what you mean by bars.

Attila Kinali