On 31.10.13 at 4:55, coffeekingms@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:03:53PM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
On 31 October 2013 06:38, kendell clark <coffeekingms@gmail.com> wrote:
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
I have this little script which tries to preserve the aspect ratio, maybe it will work better for you: https://github.com/lahwaacz/archlinux-dotfiles/blob/master/Scripts/mplayer-c...