On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:10:06PM +1100, Brett Mahar wrote:
> On 01/16/13 19:36, Brad Smith wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 07:20:42PM +1100, Brett Mahar wrote:
> >>Maybe "-fs" is a depricated option (even though its still in the man
> >>page), cause it goes into fullscreen mode now, without specifying
> >>that option (from memory it didn't do that before).
> >>
> >>Apart from that, everything is working well with this update on
> >>amd64-current built yesterday. I tested it with avi, mp4, mkv and
> >>flv video files, and flac and mp3 audio files.
> >>
> >>Brett.
> >
> >For me MPlayer prints..
> >
> >[VO_SDL] Info - please use -vm or -zoom to switch to the best resolution.
> >
> >The man page says that not all video output drivers support -fs.
> >If I use the SDL output or the XVid output I don't get full screen
> >by default.
> >
> 
> Not that its a big deal, but I was just reporting that it used to
> take this argument before no problem, now it won't run with this
> argument supplied.

OK, looking at the output it looks like this is a bug. I personally
don't use MPlayer as it is notoriously buggy.

> Maybe it depends on the video card used or something, but it does go
> to fullscreen automatically for me now (with a Radeon HD5450),
> whereas my (slightly unreliable) memory tells me it didn't before.

Strange. I have never seen that before with MPlayer.

> Anyway that is the only difference I noticed from the old ports version.
> 
> It has always said "[VO_SDL] Info - please use -vm or -zoom to
> switch to the best resolution" but when tried in the past neither vm
> or zoom did anything noticable to the picture or changed the output
> resolution for me.

Oh, ok. I usually don't use the SDL output as I have no requirement
for it.

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