[ltp] T23, RedHat 7.3, and XFree86

[Mark Phillips]

> One thing that does work, however, is using mplayer with the '-vo 
> x11' switch.  
> This lets me see video - but I cannot scale the window.  Hrmph.  -
> fs simply 
> gives me a black screen with the video in the center, at original 
> size, which 
> is not nice on a hi-res laptop!
> 
> Anyone out there with ideas?
> 
> Mark Phillips - what player were you using, and did it work fully?
> 

I used both the xmms mpeg plugin and mplayer, (couldn't get xine
to work at all) but I did find with some (avi) files 
mplayer would not scale the window at all.  

I got my most reliable results using 'mplayer -vo sdl -ao sdl'

Regards
Mark.


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