[MPlayer-users] mplayer as screensaver

[jhollind]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:30:39 -0300, Mark Veinot wrote
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Friday October 10 2003 12:01 pm, Van Leer wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi all, I was wandering about using the mplayer as a scrren saver. I
> > would like to show a move during inactivity. Is there anybody who has
> > been successfull doing something like that.
> > I've read all the documentation but don't remember such an argument.
> 
> Try XScreensaver http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver
> 
> Any program that can draw to the X root window can be used as a 
> screen saver module.
> 
> A suitable line to execute mplayer for use in xscreensaver might be:
> 
> mplayer -vo xv -rootwin -fs moviefile.mpg
> 
> --Mark

I've been trying this, and I'm only 50% there.  From a prompt it works as
expected, but from within xscreensaver I only hear it, but nothing is
displayed.  My command from xscreensaver-demo is:

mplayer -vo xv -rootwin -fs -loop 0 /path/to/mymovie.mov

I tried adding a &> /dev/null to the end, wondering if the mplayer output was
messing it up, but it didn't help.  I'm running MPlayer 1.0pre1-3.3.1.

Any ideas?

For whoever plans to use this, don't forget a -loop 0 so it keeps repeating. 
I can hear that it pauses during a failed passwd, and starts back where it
left off, which is cool.

Thanks...


--
Jason