Bug#399292: mplayer: MPlayer rc1 can't be properly scaled by WM on start

[Alexander Dorokhine]

Hi,

Sorry, there is a misunderstanding regarding what is working. Scaling works
fine as long as it is done after the movie starts.

If I start mplayer, and then click the 'maximise' button on the window, it
maximises just fine.

However, if I configure my window manager (kwin) to automatically maximise
mplayer windows on start, they are not maximised, but instead snap back to
the default size when the movie starts.

A long long time ago, this used to work properly.

Cheers!

On 5 August 2010 10:10, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:

> Hi Arren,
>
> I'm in the process of cleaning up old bugreports. This is a really old
> one, and I need to apologize for not coming to this earlier.
>
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 20:52:18 (EST), Arren Lex wrote:
>
> > Package: mplayer
> > Version: 1.0~rc1-3
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > I have my window manager (kwin) set up to automatically maximise
> > mplayer-xv windows. This worked great up to mplayer1.0pre8. I
> > installed mplayer-rc1 and now the resizing doesn't work -- the window
> > snaps back to the movie size. What might have caused this? I can still
> > resize the window manually afterward.
> >
> > I should add that mplayer with other video drivers (gl, gl2, x11..)
> > always had this problem: the windows snapped back to movie size. Xv
> > was the only one that worked, until recently.
> >
> > /proc/cpuinfo lists 'sse', 'mmx', and '3dnow' in the flags; don't know
> > if that's relevant. Using open-source radeon driver.
> >
> > P.S. no, I don't want to use fullscreen instead. I like having a
> > taskbar visible, and the ability to resize the window at need. It's
> > not nearly as convenient.
>
> Does adding -zoom help here? From the manpage:
>
>    -zoom
>        Allow software scaling, where available.  This will allow
>        scaling with output drivers (like x11, fbdev) that do not sup-
>        port hardware scaling where MPlayer disables scaling by default
>        for performance reasons.
>
>
> That should fix it for all drivers but xv. If this problem is only with
> xv, then this needs to be fixed in the radeon drivers.
>
>
> --
> Gruesse/greetings,
> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
>
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