mplayer fullscreen + compiz

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:43:39AM +0200, Xurxo F. wrote:
> I'm using 7.10 with compiz on a dell 630m with 915 intel chipset.
> Mplayer with the x11 driver doesnt go full screen.

I think you mean it does, but you get a small picture in the middle of a
large black screen.

Enabling the 'zoom' option of mplayer will fix that, if your CPU is fast
enough.  Anything powerful enough to run Compiz ought to be powerful
enough to do software scaling, which is what mplayer's 'zoom' means.

> xv works but you get
> a blank screen when rotating the cube for example. Gl, gl2 drivers work
> like the xv.
> Xmame works even worse. Xmame-x11 doesnt load when using compiz and
> xmame-sdl doesnt go full screen.
> Do you think these problems are related to the intel driver or to
> compiz?

Both, and also X.org as well.  The whole architecture is not ready for
integrating accelerated video into a 3D desktop (although I've heard
that Compiz has some plugin that acts as a workaround).  People are
working to fix that.

In the meantime you can use the workaround I suggested (x11 with
software scaling).

> Will we ever see metacity with nice effects as a default in
> ubuntu?

This is not impossible, but somebody first has to add nice effects to
metacity.

> Metacity just works but you miss some effects like transparencies.

Right.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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