MPlayer resizing

[realjoyrex]

When I'm viewing video files using MPlayer, the video won't resize with the window. The black area just increases. Also in fullscreen mode the video size stays the same. What might be wrong here?

[Icarus]

Use the -zoom option

mplayer -zoom file.mpg

There is a setting in the config for this but for some reason I've never had to do it, it always added it by itself...

[AdaHacker]

You might want to try changing your video output driver in MPlayer. Some of them, such as the x11 driver, cannot scale the video in the way you'd expect, resulting in a nice, big, black window with a tiny picture in the middle. Try using the xv driver, which I know from experience will scale the video when you resize the window.

[realjoyrex]

Ah, ignorant me. Changing the driver did the trick nicely! Thanks. :)