[mythtv-users] HULU and screen blanking

[Johnny Walker]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Kevin Ross <kevin at familyross.net> wrote:
>> > I can't help myself:
>> >
>> > After you lauch HuluDesktop you can query xwininfo to get the
>> > xwindowid as follows:
>> >
>> > user at host%: xwininfo -name "Hulu Desktop" |grep id\:|cut -d' ' -f4
>> >
>> > this can sent to xdg-screensaver to suspend the screensaver.
>> >
>> > That's if you have xdg-utils installed.
>> >
>> > -JohnnyJboss
>>
>> I was just using Firefox to watch Hulu, but after reading this thread,
>> I
>> decided to install huludesktop.  I have it working, and discovered that
>> the ~/.huludesktop configuration file has the following entries:
>>
>> [screensaver]
>> suspend_script = (null)
>> resume_script = (null)
>>
>> Would it be simpler to add something here to suspend/resume the
>> screensaver?  Or does this not work for some reason I have yet to
>> discover?
>>
>> Jay
>
> Supposedly Hulu Desktop already uses the xdg-screensaver command.  From the
> Hulu Desktop README:
>
> SCREENSAVER ISSUES
>  Currently, xdg-screensaver [suspend,resume] is being used to control the
>  screensaver when video is being played back in full screen (not in menu
> mode).
>
>  For some users with screensavers that don't work with xdg-screensaver, you
>  can specify commands for Hulu Desktop to run instead it wants to
> suspend/resume
>  the screensaver during playback.  They exist under [screensaver] in
> ~/.huludesktop
>

That's great - now Adobe/Flash would just implement VDPAU we'd be in business.

-Johnny