without proper video acceleration in X this is not possible/reccomended. try using the double option in mpegtv and you'll see what i mean. even on my p3-800 512MB with voodoo3 in 16bit doublesize in mpegtv on a 30fps mpeg is pretty much unbearable. by comparison back in 1996 i had a #9 imagine 128 series 2 with p200. i could scale up to 1024x768 with 30fps playback no problem under the wreteched OS(about 60% CPU utilization. my machine now has easily 5x the horsepower and can't come close to that ..
don't expect this to improve anytime soon. there are no real standards that i've seen for hardware video scaling. seems most every video card vendor has their own way to do it ..and of course that information is pretty top secret for them .. i think mpegtv's fullscreen mode is about as close as your gonna get if you want high quality, good framerate playback. by all means if you find a way to do this let me know ive been looking for years to try to solve this problem and haven't seen a solution yet. I *think* ATI recently released a media SDK(?) that allowed people to develop for hardware video playback(maybe upwards of a year ago) on their cards, haven't heard anything that has come of it yet though. nate On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, matt garman wrote: garman > garman >Hello: garman > garman >Is there any way that I can play video on my Linux system in *fullscreen* garman >mode? By fullscreen, I mean that the images are scaled to the size of my garman >entire screen. garman > garman >I have smpeg (plaympeg) version 0.4.0 and SDL version 1.1.5 as well as garman >mtvp (MpegTV) version 1.1.0.7 on my system. They both advertise garman >"fullscreen" but the result is not what I described above. Rather than garman >scaling the movie, the video is played back at the original size, but with garman >a giant black border. So my screen is wholly covered in black, but only garman >about 1/10 of the screen is actually video. garman > garman >Is there another software package I need to install? Or is this a garman >limitation of my video hardware? I have a Matrox Millenium I (the garman >lowliest of the Milleniums I guess) with 4mb of (video) RAM. My computer garman >is a Pentium II 266 with 96mb of RAM. garman > garman >Thanks, garman >Matt garman > garman >-- garman >Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] garman >"I may make you feel, but I can't make you think." garman > -- Jethro Tull, "Thick as a Brick" garman > garman > garman >-- garman >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null garman > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:45pm up 38 days, 1:41, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00