[mythtv-users] mplayer and screensavers...something to be aware of

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 20:41:16 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> In these newer
>  versions there's a new command line option added called -heartbeat-cmd
>  that can be used as a kludged work around, as explained in the man
>  page:
>  <snip>

For anyone interested, for xscreensaver, placing the following in your
~/.mplayer/config file works and doesn't put anything in you logs:

heartbeat-cmd="/usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -deactivate > /dev/null"

Tom


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