On Friday 01 Aug 2003 12:01 am, LtCdData wrote:
> On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 16:50, magnet wrote:
> hey magnet^  i had the same prob.. dont now tho )
> i cant mind if the fix was a manual edit of the mplayer config file or if
> it went away with the next compiled upgrade as it was some time back
>
>
> LtCdData
>
> > On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 5:15 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> > > magnet wrote:
> > > >I can only start mplayer up in full screen. I have checked the konsole
> > > >messages during start-up for references to files accessed and have
> > > > checked the contents of those config files for any settings that
> > > > might cause this problem.
> > > >When it is configured via the gui, once started, I explicitly set the
> > > > option to NOT start in full screen mode. Exiting the program and
> > > > re-starting it still causes the full screen mode to be the default
> > > > but the settings are still unchanged from how I set them.
> > > >What might be causing my config file to be over-ruled like this?
> > >
> > > I have the opposite problem. on call, gmplayer arrives small screen
> > > size, and when I click full screen , it goes full screen but with a
> > > small screen picture and black boarders.
> > >
> > > I suspect a mplayer  problem with  video drivers.
> > > nvidia have reworked their drivers for M9.1 and I'm guessing mlayer
> > > doesn't work well with it. Just a guess.
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > Yeap, could be right with that, although I've read about people not being
> > able to scale their movies for some other reasons. I know everything I
> > have here can be scaled using windows players so the files themselves are
> > not at fault.
> >
> > magnet

Yeap, it was the gui.conf file. I added the line "fs=no" and all is back to 
normal. Simple really, but I would have expected it to set this variable 
itself if you selected it in the gui preferences. A bug maybe?

Cheers to all for your help. One less thing to worry about :)


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