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
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-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.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF