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i have already talked about both the problem and the first solution , which can set it right when used it from the command prompt , but here is another method if u are opening mplayer from gnome , ... click on the video to be opened and select ' open with other application ' , there select ' use custom command ' , then enter ' mplayer -zoom 200 ' , this will open mplayer properly , the next time u need not enter the whole thing, ....... selecting only mplayer also works, because mplayer automatically generates an alias withing the filesystem . But there is a problem , now suppose if u plug in a removable media , u will have to enter the whole command with the zoom option again , because it is a different filesystem . I am not yet confirmed on this point , have to do a little more testing . But i have not encountered the problem on the same machine when i compiled and installed MPlayer-1.0rc2 . Have to test the whole thing a litlle more to confirm the bugs .

i was facing this problem when installed MPlayer-1.0rc1 on ubuntu 7.10, the problem was that the video would come up only in the center of the screen even in the full screen mode ,i had installed the player from source . Now there are two solutions for this, the first one works perfectly , but the second one is a little problematic .They are : 1. Create an alias to the mplayer command and place it in the bash configuration file, so the line to be placed in the file is: alias mplayer='mplayer -zoom 200' and place this in the file ~/.bashrc . This works fine if u are running mplayer from the command line , i will post the next method a little later .....