cannot play any video file in full screen

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I have attached my inxi -F report file for a clearer hardware configuration picture of my system.

Here's my video drivers list screen shot in MPlayer video tab under Preferences. As I've already said in my initial report, none of these drivers would play my videos in full screen without the unusual results.

Well, the only thing I notice is that you have an ATI card, so make sure you've enabled the ATI drivers in Menu > Admin > Hardware Drivers.

It seems my ATI is up and running and, also, like I'm out of choices.

Mplayer and VLC would crash trying to play full screen video on Linux Mint 8 with an nvidia 7200GS using the NVIDIA version 96 proprietary driver. I tried several different sizes and formats in each player; same result.

Current workaround:
I changed the settings in VLC (tools > preferences > "video" tab > "output" pulldown > select "OpenGL video output"
and now just open all media with VLC. I have no mplayer workaround and have tried no other drivers.

inxi -F attached.

UPDATE:

Here's another fix that works better:

In VLC,
tools > preferences > "video" tab > uncheck "Accelerated video output (Overlay)"

Then X11 video output works, and other bugs and janky looking artifacts around fullscreen video and during the transition to and from fullscreen also go away.

Back at the point though, there seems to be something going on with the hardware acceleration on both NVIDIA and ATI cards using the closed drivers. This is probably an underlying issue with ubuntu?

I am trying to watch streaming video but it keeps closing mozilla every time I go to full screen. I can't get any bigger image than what shows up in the pop up window. Help please

Kansaboy: try changing the output mode, say, from x11 to xv.

I have the same issue. I'm not sure what information to provide, but here's a terminal paste:

$ vlc
VLC media player 1.0.6 Goldeneye
[0x929e148] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0x96e8238] pulse audio output: No. of Audio Channels: 2
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 42.0 failed with error code 8:
 BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 133.19 failed with error code 11:
 BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request: 133 (XVideo)
  Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
  Serial number of failed request: 653
  Current serial number in output stream: 654
badcam@DesktopBlack ~ $ gnome-media-player
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Engine: 'Auto Select'
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Nothing to play
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Nothing to play
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Adding 'file:///home/badcam/Desktop/Revision EGREAT M31B parte 1.mp4' to playlist
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Selecting first row
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Playing 'file:///home/badcam/Desktop/Revision EGREAT M31B parte 1.mp4'
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Not an MPEG2 Transport Stream
** Message: Creating VLC engine
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Deinterlacer disabled
** Message: VLC engine created
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Engine MRL set to 'file:///home/badcam/Desktop/Revision EGREAT M31B parte 1.mp4'
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Got Cookie: 419816027
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Screensaver inhibited
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Got Cookie: 148412601
** (gnome-media-player:19811): DEBUG: Screensaver inhibited
[0x9964740] pulse audio output: No. of Audio Channels: 2
[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 133.19 failed with error code 11:
 BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request: 133 (XVideo)
  Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
  Serial number of failed request: 229
  Current serial number in output stream: 230

I have this issue on both my Laptop and Desktop. Both are running Mint 9.0 and Nvidia Graphics cards (GT6600 for desktop and Geforce Go 7300).

Thanks.

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