[mythtv-users] mythtv netflix hack

[Rob Verduijn]

Hi,

I'm rather busy so it took me a while to find some time.

I've added  2 snippets to the mythflix.sh and they do the trick
setx is present on most distros and doesn't care about gnome or kde or
most other windows managers, it works with X.


Regards
Rob

#!/bin/bash

#run script berfore firefox starts
~/mythnetflix/mythnetflix-start-before-firefox.sh

#starts firefox with netflix profile
setsid firefox -p mythtv-netflix &

# run script after firefox starts
~/mythnetflix/mythnetflix-start-after-firefox.sh

# turn of screensaver
xset s off         # don't activate screensaver
xset -dpms         # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s noblank     # don't blank the video device

#loop to check if firefox is running
pidoffirefox=$(pidof -s firefox)
while [ $pidoffirefox != "" ]
do
  sleep 1
  pidoffirefox=$(pidof -s firefox)
done

# turn on screensaver
xset s on          # enable screensaver
xset +dpms         # enable DPMS
xset s blank       # enable blanking

#run script after firefox exits
~/mythnetflix/mythnetflix-stop.sh
exit

2014-04-27 18:11 GMT+02:00 Gregory Schade <gmschade at gmail.com>:
>
>
> On April 27, 2014 9:23:12 AM MDT, Rob Verduijn <rob.verduijn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've got netflix up and running.
>>Didn't implement the lirc implementation yet but that's a lo-prio for
>>me since my remote is also an airmouse which solves a lot of issues.
>>http://ipazzport.com/16G.html  (mine is black)
>>
>>The issues that i found however.
>>Firefox was not going to start in full screen mode.
>>I edited
>>/home/<mythtuser>/.mozilla/firefox/mythtv-netflix/localstore.rdf
>>and set the width and height to that of the screen resolution (it was
>>the last entry at the bottom for me)
>>
>>the screensaver however still kicks in, does anybody know how to
>>prevent this ? (kde desktop)
>>
>>Rob
>>
> Rob,
> I am not sure if it will work for you but on my desktop i use a program called "caffeine" that will block the screen saver under certain conditions. To make it work with pipeline/siilverlight you would need to add 'pluginloader.EXE' to the list of programs that caffeine watches for.
> On my cell right now so directions may be off a hair.
> Greg
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