[MPlayer-users] Re: Using mplayer as an xscreensaver display program.

[Jason A. Smith]

On Sat Oct 26 18:45:02 2002  "Attila Kinali" wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:14:45 -0400
> "Jason A. Smith" <jazbo at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> > #include "vroot.h"
> > 
> > to config.h and recompiling mplayer.  Then I just added a line
> > like this to my .xscreensaver file in the programs section:
> 
> Urgs... there should be no #include in config.h! Never!
> you can cause by this a lot of problems as config.h is included everywhere.
> The better way is to add another define there and check for it where you
> include vroot.h. I think the best place to include vroot.h should be
> somewhere in libvo/ (where all video output stuff belongs to).

Sorry, I really don't care where it is included.  My only point was
that a simple modification to the sources would allow mplayer to be used
as an xscreensaver display program.  It was necessary to me for something
that I am working on, so I just spent a minute to figure out what was
required to build an mplayer executable that would do what I needed it to
do.  I just thought I would post a message to an mplayer list in case
anyone else found it useful also.  I never ment for it to be the way it
should be done, it was just a quick hack to show that it could be done
with the simple addition of vroot.h to the mplayer sources, that is all!

> >  "Title"  mplayer -rootwin -fs -loop 0 movie.avi &>/dev/null \n\
> > 
> > Would the mplayer developers consider adding this to future
> > versions? 
> 
> I'm sure noone would add this in this form.
> 
> Btw: development stuff should go to -dev-eng
> 
> 		Attila Kinali