how to watch fullscreen using mplayer

[Daniel_wang]

very strange is my mplayer can not watch the rmvb file in fullscreen even though I turn on it,

any idea will be appreciated.

[shirilover]

What video output method are you using?
If it's X11, you need to use the -zoom switch as well to display full screen.

[Daniel_wang]

sorry how to use -zoom to switch?

[shirilover]

One of the following ways:

mplayer -vo x11 -fs -zoom yourvideo.rmvb

or by adding the following to ~/.mplayer/config

# Use the following video output method
#vo=xv # This is the preferred video output
vo=x11

# Enable full screen when using X11/XShm output
fs=yes
zoom=yes

[Daniel_wang]

yes, it's done, thank you.

can you tell me why by default it can not watch in full screen

but, i need to configure it mannually?