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Posted: Oct. 04 2005,14:56 QUOTE

Hi, I've been using mplayer.dsl for a short time and have always been seeing the small screen size.

1. Is there any way to change the size? I tried the full screen option but all it does is fill the whole screen with the mplayer background screen (?) but the video screen is still the same size. Is there any way to expand it without doing the steps below?

2. I tried reading the documentation and found I need the FreeX86 (?) or something like that to bundle with mplayer in order to expand the video screen. Is this the only way?

3. I have an Hercules 2D video bd and I was researching all the net for video accelerators, can I use the nvidia drivers with any success? (my dvds keep dropping frames).

Any insight would be most appreciated. Thank you.
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Posted: Oct. 04 2005,15:09 QUOTE

As far as i know, xfree86 is required for fullscreen playback.  I may be wrong...it could just need a change of the video output, but i never got it to work myself.  This is the main reason why there is a separate mplayer extension built for use with xfree86. There is also an extension of xfree86 itself.
If you want to use nvidia, you'll need xfree86 with that, too.  Lucky for you, there's an nvidia extension available =o)


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Posted: Oct. 06 2005,14:27 QUOTE

Hi again, I took your advice (thank you!) and installed the Xfree86 environment (?) and the mplayer for the xfree86 setup and the screen is a bit bigger though it's not the full screen size.

It's possible that my video bd (correction from previous posting: Hercules 3D Prophet 400 T, I think) may not support the other larger video modes or emulations. I'll do some more tweaks and report if anything interesting comes up.

I then tried the Xine.dsl package that was also on the myDSL repository and it's screen was almost fullscreen except that the video moved real slow. Any thoughts on this observation?

Thank you again for your help!  :D
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Posted: Oct. 06 2005,14:27 QUOTE

Hi again, I took your advice (thank you!) and installed the Xfree86 environment (?) and the mplayer for the xfree86 setup and the screen is a bit bigger though it's not the full screen size.

It's possible that my video bd (correction from previous posting: Hercules 3D Prophet 400 T, I think) may not support the other larger video modes or emulations. I'll do some more tweaks and report if anything interesting comes up.

I then tried the Xine.dsl package that was also on the myDSL repository and it's screen was almost fullscreen except that the video moved real slow. Any thoughts on this observation?

Thank you again for your help!  :D
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Posted: Oct. 06 2005,15:25 QUOTE

I misread your previous post.  As far as I know, the nvidia driver will work for only nvidia boards (TNT, geforce).  It's very likely that your graphics processor is the limiting factor.

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