Has anyone used the xmmplayer plugin for xmms?
I used a while back with no problems at all.
Ive got it working but I have the videos playing in full screen but I cant get the video to fill the screeen. ie screen resolution of 1024x768 and a video of resolution of 800x600 ends up with a little video playing in the middle!
How do you get it to play in proper full screen. I haven’t installed mplayer with GUI support but I shouldnt have to just to get it to fill the screen.
Can anyone help?
Never used xmmplayer, tried xine?
Just use the real MPlayer rather than trying to use an MPlayer plugin for XMMS. It’ll work much better that way. 
Zeus, which Linux distribution are you using?
If you are using a Debian based distro and you want to install Mplayer (with the GUI), just type:
sudo apt-get install mplayerIf you are using KDE and would like to better integrate Mplayer, just type:
sudo apt-get install kmplayerIm going to try installing with GUI enabled but might just swap to xine like Addis suggested.
Ive definatly had it working like this before though.
As to my distribution… god knows
Welcome to Linux From Scratch!
Whatever this is. Its all ive ever used. It does everything I need it to and nothing I dont.
[QUOTE=megamaced]
Zeus, which Linux distribution are you using?
If you are using a Debian based distro and you want to install Mplayer (with the GUI), just type:
sudo apt-get install mplayerIf you are using KDE and would like to better integrate Mplayer, just type:
sudo apt-get install kmplayer[/QUOTE]
Not sure you can do this ‘out-of-the-box’.
You might have to add one or two repositories…
Apparently something like…
A kin for GUI
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/mplayer/Skin &&
tar -jvxf ../Blue-1.4.tar.bz2 \
-C /usr/share/mplayer/Skin &&
chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue &&
chmod -v 0755 /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue{,/icons} &&
ln -sfv Blue /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default
make
patch -Np1 -i ../MPlayer-1.0pre7-kernel_2.6-1.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
--enable-largefiles [SIZE="4"][B]--enable-gui[/B][/SIZE] &&
make
make install
make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/mplayer-1.0pre7 &&
cp -v -R DOCS/* /usr/share/doc/mplayer-1.0pre7
ln -v -s libdha.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libdha.so
install -m644 etc/codecs.conf /etc/mplayer
install -m644 etc/*.conf /etc/mplayer
echo "dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
[CODE]cat >> /etc/udev/rules.d/24-dvd.rules << “EOF”
KERNEL=“[dvd drive]”, SYMLINK=“dvd”
EOF
udevstart[/CODE]
And that doesnt inlcude subtitles or codecs! Its the --enable-menu bit which is the GUI bit.
I tried xine and it was slow as hell on my comp. The nvidia driver proved a pain in the arse last time I had to install them. So I went back to xmms, gui did nothing but I didnt expect it to.
So I made a new mplayer.conf with zoom=yes and full=yes (think it was full, cant remember now) and it worked a treat. After all that faffin’!
Got the soundcard working first go too, I though that would be a bitch. Another thing I couldnt remember how to do.
Yes, one of the prices you pay for running your own source-based distro! But it’s still cool nonetheless, and you’ll certainly know your OS and everything that’s going on under the hood!
Not a lot under the hood really, but that was the reason for startin this. Its still 2 gb though already. Im just looking at open office now. Thats 3gb alone! Its gonna take around 10hrs to compile that too. Labour of love really, but Ive found im only using windows to use partition manager (backing up the linux partition as I go along) and to use mathcad, which come october I wont use anymore anyway. I havent tried to set up the internet on it yet though. If I ever get one of those wireless network things (!!) that will be the real test.