Re: [arch-general] mplayer2 deprecation

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:55 AM, wrote:

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:03:53PM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:

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On 31 October 2013 06:38, kendell clark wrote:

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Since mplayer2 has been deprecated and moved to the aur, i've been trying to find another console video player that will play videos in full screen.

Fullscreen in console requires a trick, AFAIK. In fact, the 'fs' option has no major function; 'zoom' does the work, though I may be wrong. Append the following options:

-vo fbdev2 == Standard fbdev may not work. -zoom -xy WIDTH == Here WIDTH is your maximum horizontal screen resolution. -quiet == To suppress the info bar at bottom while maximized. -fs == To suppress background output while maximized.

Here's what I use for my 1366x768 screen:

alias climplayerfs='mplayer -quiet -softvol -fs -zoom -xy 1366 -vo fbdev2 -ao alsa -af volnorm'

-- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

hi Thanks for the help. That worked better than my attempts did, although now when I start mplayer with the alias I get the following: [fbdev2] Screensize is smaller than video size (1600x900 < 1600x1200) FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver. I used to run into these issues all the time. Am I missing anything, or is it just not possible to watch videos in console with mplayer? Thanks Kendell clark

Have you treid adjusting the '-xy 1366' part of the alias?