Hi,
If I start a video in mplayer it opens a large window. My machine has an onboard graphics card which isn’t too powerful so the video is jumpy and the sound echos.
If I drag the video window so its smaller it then works fine - which I can live with. However, if I close mplayer and reopen it the video window goes back to its original bigger size.
I cannot see anything in the mplayer options to fix the start up video window size. Anyone know how to do this?
> I cannot see anything in the mplayer options to fix the start up video
> window size. Anyone know how to do this?
It uses the video resolution to determine the window size. Do you start in in Fullscreen by default? That’s under Preferences, Misc., just uncheck it.
Uwe
No I don’t have it set t full screen.
The window that pops up is resizable, but its doesn’t remember the size if you change it.
On 08/20/2008 scrib wrote:
> The window that pops up is resizable, but its doesn’t remember the
> size if you change it.
AFAIK mplayer cannot remember a size. I think SMplayer can.
You can try the options for mplayer:
-screenh <pixels>
Specify the vertical screen resolution for video output drivers which do not know the screen resolution like fbdev, x11 and TV-out.
-screenw <pixels>
Specify the horizontal screen resolution for video output drivers which do not know the screen resolution like fbdev, x11 and TV-out.
I don’t know if you can put them in the config files, try it on the command line for starters.
Uwe
OK thanks for your reply - it set me on the right path.
Adding:
xy = 350
to the mplayer.conf fixed this. Now when I launch a mplayer video it plays in a 350 x 350 screen size. My weak little graphics processor can handle this ok.