How to play FULLSCREEN videos in console?

[Miter_J]

It took me so much time that I finally made it to play videos in the console.
The command is "sudo mplayer -vo fbdev test.avi"
But I could not make it full-screened, even I put the parameter "-fs" after it.
The only difference that "-fs" took is only that it put the display screen from the the left-up corner to the center, but it's still not full-screened.
Someone please help me out.:cry:

[andrew.46]

Perhaps something like the following:


mplayer -vo fbdev -screenw 800 -screenh 600 -geometry 50%:50% test.avi

adjusting width and height to your preferences, this should play the video in the centre of the screen perhaps use -fs for fullscreen as well, I have not tested this. This works with the svn MPlayer, not sure about older versions...

Andrew

[Miter_J]

Sorry guy, I've tryed what you said but nothing changed.
The video is still in the center and the size is still small.
Why is this so hard in console but seems very easy in the GUI since we can simply double click the window and accomplish it?

[andrew.46]

Perhaps something like the following:



mplayer -vo fbdev -screenw 800 -screenh 600 -geometry 50%:50% -zoom -fs test.avi


Andrew

[Miter_J]

Perhaps something like the following:



mplayer -vo fbdev -screenw 800 -screenh 600 -geometry 50%:50% -zoom -fs test.avi


Andrew
- -Still not work...
Does this work on your computer?
Nothing changed here.

[andrew.46]

Hi Miter,


Does this work on your computer?

A very pertinent question :). I am between Ubuntu installations at the moment but on my Slackware setup I have a 640 x 480 framebuffer set in Lilo, and I can achieve full screen display with the following slight variation of the syntax I have suggested to you:



mplayer -vo fbdev -screenw 640 -screenh 480 -zoom -fs -xy 640 test.avi


Easier results can be achieved with -vo svga which might be worth trying as well... I shall experiment with higher resolutions on the framebuffer settings on my system just for curiosity

Andrew

Edit: Well I set the framebuffer to 800x600x32k (in Lilo this is done simply with vga=788 ) and the following syntax then produced full screen with correct aspect ratio:



mplayer -vo fbdev -screenw 800 -screenh 600 -zoom -fs -xy 800 test.avi


It is a little cumbersome but works well enough, I note that fbdev2 gives a better result though...

[Miter_J]

Wow!~ That's so nice of you!
-xy 1280(the width of your resolution, mine is 1280. More than 1280 will bring out an error.) will make it full screen.
Thank you so much~

[Miter_J]

PS, the -screenh and the -screenw are not necessary though.

mplayer -vo fbdev -xy 1280 -fs -zoom test.avi
will perfectly achieve my goal

[MooPi]

Have you tried
mplayer -aspect 16:9 -fs test.avi
I change the aspect to get full/full screen
Possible ratios to use for smaller screens, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, and finally 16:9,

[Miter_J]

I just tried. It doesn't work.
Now the only way to get full screen for me is what I said above.
Are you in console?
In terminal, your command is ok.

[MooPi]

I just tried. It doesn't work.
Now the only way to get full screen for me is what I said above.
Are you in console?
In terminal, your command is ok.

Terminal, I don't use the console, and find the terminal easier to configure. Sorry for the confusion.

[andrew.46]

Hi Miter_J,


PS, the -screenh and the -screenw are not necessary though.

mplayer -vo fbdev -xy 1280 -fs -zoom test.avi
will perfectly achieve my goal

Glad that you have achieved your goal :). Indeed you are perfectly correct, it seems that -screenh and -screenw are not necessary which I will admit has caught me by surprise. In theory it is necessary to use these as fbdev is not aware of the screen dimensions but following your suggestion I tested without these and there was no difference. You learn something new every day :).

Andrew

[Miter_J]

That's really great to have such a nice mate like you.
Thank you, Andrew.

[Miter_J]

Nothing to be sorry about.
I just find text-only environment very charming, so I tried to be only in the console.
Thank you though, for your kindness~

[Miter_J]

Oh, my English seems to be very poor.
Should I say "sorry for" instead of "sorry about"?
What a naive mistake...