[mythtv-users] HULU and screen blanking

[Johnny Walker]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 04/13/2010 03:25 PM, Dave Day wrote:
>>
>> I have added the HULU Desktop menu item to myth and
>> it works fine except that I have been unsuccessful in stopping
>> the screen from blanking after about 10 minutes.
>>
>> I start Hulu Desktop from a shell script which
>> uses
>>
>> xset -dpms
>> xscreensaver-command --deactivate
>
> deactivate only stops the running screensaver (or resets the timeout).
>  You'd have to run that in a loop once every screensaver_timeout -
> a_few_seconds--or to prevent any potential issues, once every (
> screensaver_timeout / 2) - a_few_seconds , though that extra safety is
> basically unnecessary.
>
> xscreensaver-command -exit would work (but will also mean your screensaver
> is disabled until someone turns it back on, which might not work well even
> if you do that after hulu desktop exits).
>
>> to attempt to get the blanking under control but it is not effective.
>>
>> I would love to get this fixed.
>
> Well, just take the source code for Hulu desktop and modify it...  Oh,
> wait...
>
> So, better solution, don't use Hulu.  :)
>
> Mike

I actually solved this one. When you add the launch for huludesktop to
the menus - make it EXECTV instead of just EXEC.

Worked like a charm for me.

I dropped Hulu when Flash 10 didn't have VDPAU support as was rumored.

-Johnny