[MPlayer-users] mplayer as screensaver

[Sycotic Smith]

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Veinot <vmark at nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:33:45 -0300
To: "MPlayer user's list." <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer as screensaver

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wednesday October 15 2003 1:08 pm, jhollind wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hrmmm you're right. It should work, but it doesn't. I tried it myself, and I 
> just get a black screen. I'll keep working on it and let you know if I figure 
> anything out.
> 
> -Vic

Try it from a run prompt and see if that works. Then maybe send to a logfile from xscreensaver and look thru to see if there is a problem with the vo or vc, you might be hitting a wall if the xscreensaver is running as root, but mplayer is trying to access as non-root.  Or maybe xscreensaver isn't giving you access to an xv port? Just a thought.

/S. Smith
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