[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Enable energy saving option and screensaver mode when the video is paused.

Ferenc Czumbil sisco311 at ubuntu.com
Mon Dec 1 16:57:47 CET 2014


On 29/11/14 23:58, Hans-Dieter Kosch wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 07:09:26PM +0200, Ferenc Czumbil wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Currently, by default, energy saving and the screensaver is disabled
>>> when mplayer starts and is re-enabled on exit.
>>>
>>> This re-enables them when the video is paused. Fixes bug #2112
>>
>> I'm not sure everyone likes this behaviour.
>> It might be better to add an option to choose the behaviour.
>
> I'd also vote for a selectable behaviour. A user may want to observe a 
> picture of a paused stream, and then annoyingly the screensaver 
> interferes...
>

Should I add a new separate option? Or would it be better to have a 
single option for selecting the desired behaviour? Something like:

-stop-xscreensaver true|false|on_playback

Regards,
sisco311.



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