[mythtv-users] Screen blanking when using mplayer for videos

[Krzysztof Adamski]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:52 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> Using a frontend only machine with J-Y Avenard's patched mythbuntu to
> make use of vdpau. When I use mplayer as my video player it blanks the
> screen approx every 15 minutes and some poor sod has to get up and hit
> the keyboard to bring the pic back. Needless to say FamilyAF is low.
> 
> I have disabled gnome-screensaver as I saw recommended somewhere with:
> 
> sudo chmod a-x /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver
> 
> (There didn't seem to be any other way to disable it).
> 
> Is there a sure-fire way to stop this happening? If the screensaver is
> not doing it, what is?

You can add -stop-xscreensaver to the global command line for mplayer.
This may work for you, it works for me, I use KDE on debian lenny.

K