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

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

2009/4/26 Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>:
> 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).
>

You can go in the System -> Preferences -> Power Management
And put display and computer to never go to sleep.

and put in your startup script:
xset s noblank
xset s off
xset -dpms