maximum resolution: how to extend ?

[mywing81 at gmail.com (Giorgio)]

2010/5/7 Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:15:08AM +0200, Giorgio wrote:
>> >> While waiting for a better answer, have you tried a different vo? The
>> >> following two commands work here:
>> >>
>> >> mplayer -quiet -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo fps=10:w=2500:h=2000:y8
>> >> /dev/zero -vo gl
>> >
>> > As with Reimar, this one does not work (it shows a white screen instead of black - and still plain white instead of noise in case I replace /dev/zero by /dev/urandom), but gl2 does (not with the current debian-multimedia mplayer which shows some green screen, but with the latest svn revision)!
>>
>> Uhm, all three of them work here (gl, gl2 and x11) but the fastest one
>> for me is gl, because both x11 and gl2 try to do colorspace conversion
>> in software.
>
> gl2 does not "support" grayscale as input, that's just by accident though.
>
>> [gl2] Creating 1x1 textures of size 4096x2048 ...
>
> This is why gl works for you, your hardware supports at least textures of
> size 4096x2048, but at some size limit gl will stop working for you, too.

Oh, thanks for the explanation Reimar. Now, if only I could understand
why those windows won't extend beyond the visible portion of my screen
it would be perfect :)

Giorgio Vazzana