On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:02:20PM +0200, Markus Hennecke wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Edd Barrett wrote: > > >On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:57:20AM +0200, Markus Hennecke wrote: > >>Like Marc already pointed out I am using SDL so that the resolution > >>is switched to a smaller one while playing videos full screen. I'll > >>check if I can achive the same effect with the x11 driver. > > > >Thanks, please report back, so I can try the same thing on a sparc64. > > Looks like it is equal fast, but the usability is not existant with the > x11 driver. SDL will start the movie in a window and I can press 'f' which > will change the screen resolution and gives me a full screen view of the > movie without window decorations. The -vm option together with the x11 > driver will a) switch immediatly to a new resolution and b) let my window > manager position the window somewhere on the screen. Not good, I can tell > mplayer to not grab the mouse pointer and then the window is movable (as > long as it is still visible in the smaller section of the screen that is > shown). I'm sure that I can work around the window positioning problem, > but I would really miss switching from "full screen" to window mode back > and forth. So for now I would opt for keeping the SDL flavor. > > Kind regards, > Markus
so, basically you want pressing 'f' to get you full screen in a smaller than normal video mode? -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
