slacko 5.6 on Dell 1010 mini

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johnd
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slacko 5.6 on Dell 1010 mini

#1 Post by johnd »

Hi there

hope I'm in the right section

I have finally got my netbook to play video properly on linux ,be it presently in a screen window.

slacko 5.6 seems to be the only puppy with the correct poulsbo driver - I have tried other disto's with no success.

Tho only downside is that it will not play full screen in the installed player on smaller dimension files but plays 720p h264 files perfectly in almost full screen.

I have tried to install vlc with no success.

Has anyone any futher suggestions how to make it play fullscreen
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#2 Post by SFR »

Interesting...
Although on both my laptops (Toshiba & Acer) with AMD graphics, (gnome)-mplayer plays fullscreen correctly, however I noticed this behavior in VirtualBox some time ago.
Anyway, try one of these, both work for me in VBox:

1. Open (or create, if doesn't exist) /root/.mplayer/config file and add this line:

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zoom=1
2. In GNOME-Mplayer's 'Preferences -> MPlayer -> Extra Options to MPlayer' add:

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-zoom
BTW, the first method is global - it should affect also other mplayer frontends like SMPlayer, UMPlayer, etc.

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#3 Post by johnd »

thanks for the info

this seems to solve the full screen issue but unfortunately runs video at slow speed - strange that hd plays at normal speed
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#4 Post by SFR »

Strange indeed... Perhaps changing some settings in 'Preferences -> Player' like "Video Output" or "Hardware Support" would make some difference..?
I have tried to install vlc with no success.
Here's the link to VLC package for Slacko-5.6:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy//viewt ... 836#730836
Requires QT (sfs or pet) to be installed.

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#5 Post by johnd »

unfortunately vlc does not work - brings up errors on h264 and xvid playback.

thanks for the feedback anyway

Regards JD
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#6 Post by johnd »

finally cracked it

Got SM player to install and everything now playing in full screen

Thanks for all the help

Regards JD
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#7 Post by johnd »

now that I've got video playing - can anyone tell me how to make sm player my default player
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#8 Post by ardvark »

johnd wrote:now that I've got video playing - can anyone tell me how to make sm player my default player
Hi...

Does "Default Applications Chooser" under Menu--->Setup do it?

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#9 Post by johnd »

It does work ok - thanks for the help.
Still finding my way around puppy but it appears to be fairly user friendly and even works on the 1010

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Re: johnd

#10 Post by ardvark »

johnd wrote:It does work ok - thanks for the help.
You're welcome, glad it helped :)

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