[MPlayer-users] DVD and xscreensaver

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Fri Feb 7 15:20:11 CET 2003


On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 06:15, Corey Hickey wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > The only drawback I find to mplayer vs ogle for watching DVD's is that
> > while watching the movie, xscreensaver popped on. It seems that ogle is
> > a little more intelligent (or less secure??) in that it disables
> > xscreensaver while playing a DVD.
> > 
> 
>   -stop_xscreensaver
>                Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again 
> on exit.
> 
> Does that work? You can put it in the mplayer config file.
> 
> -Corey

I'm running the gmplayer.
That would probably work - but I think what would be ideal is if that
was sent to the xscreensaver when full screen mode was selected.

Putting it in a config file would have the effect of that switch with
any instance of mplayer, which I don't think I'd want.

-- 
Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com>



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