[mythtv-users] Mplayer conf file and xscreensaver when playing videos

[Krzysztof Adamski]

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 13:45 -0400, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Krzysztof Adamski <k at adamski.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 00:34 +1000, Phill Edwards wrote:
> >> > Try using MPlayer's -hearbeat-cmd
> >> > command(<http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html>) instead.
> >>
> >> Thanks. For the record adding this line into my mplayer.flv.conf file
> >> did the trick:
> >>
> >> heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate"
> >
> > I added -stop-xscreensaver to the command line invocation of mplayer,
> > and that worked also. This way I didn't have to do it on every frontend.
> >
> > K
> >
> 
> Just to be clear...whether you put the option in the command line or
> the config file...the main issue is that, in newer versions of
> mplayer, they've stopped supporting all the various different APIs
> used by various screen savers in favor of the screen saver API within
> X itself.  Unfortunately, I don't know if any of the screen savers
> actually use that API...though in fairness to the mplayer folks they
> probably should.  I know for sure that xscreensaver doesn't.  For that
> reason it's almost always necessary to use the heartbeat-command
> option (using a command specific to the screen saver you're running).

I'm running debian lenny with KDE as the window manager. The screen
saver it the standard one that comes with KDE and now it works with the
-stop-xscreensaver. YMMV.

K