On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:07pm, MHR wrote
I like xine for most DVD playing - as long as it recognizes the DVD, I have no trouble with it at all. It also has a feature that mplayer lacks - turning off the screen saver while the movie is playing (which also has its drawbacks...).
Erm, what? $ man mplayer . . -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only) Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit. If your screensaver supports neither the XSS nor XResetScreen- Saver API please use -heartbeat-cmd instead.
That being said, that flag didn't work for me with gnome-screensaver (it works just fine with xscreensaver). The referenced "heartbeat-cmd" flag and the example included in the manpage works just fine, though. Any of those options can be included in one's ~/.mplayer/config file to be automatically used during any mplayer session.