[MPlayer-users] Re: OSX: disable "auto-sleep" while playing a video?

[gabor]

Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> Hrm .. that's interesting. Never actually noticed if I had this problem. 
> It could be that usually when I'm playing something in windowed mode, 
> I'm also doing other stuff in other apps and when not I use it 
> fullscreen. I'll have to test this.
> 
> Which output driver are you using (sdl, macosx, quartz, ...)?

macosx.

seems to be the fastest from the possible drivers.

gabor

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> On Feb 06, 2006, at 07:01, gabor wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>>
>> i use mac osx.
>>
>> the problem is that when i'm watching something in mplayer, the system 
>> seems to interpret it as 'nothing is happening', and acts accordingly:
>>
>> 1. lowers the brightness of the screen after some time
>> 2. probably would later turn off the display, but i never wait so long.
>>
>>
>> after #1, simply moving the cursor around a little helps, but it gets 
>> a little annoying after some time.
>>
>> for me this seems to be the standard problem as i had in linux with 
>> the screensaver jumping in.
>>
>> is there anything to solve this on  mac-osx?
>>
>> or to reformulate:
>> what are other mac-osx users doing in this situation?
>>
>> thanks,
>> gabor
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