On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:03:53PM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > On 31 October 2013 06:38, kendell clark <coffeekingms@xxxxxxxxx> 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
