Comments on: mplayer http://blogs.gnome.org/zucchi/2008/04/21/mplayer/ Just another GNOME Blogs diary Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:26:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Marius Gedminas http://blogs.gnome.org/zucchi/2008/04/21/mplayer/#comment-30 Marius Gedminas Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:47:25 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/zucchi/2008/04/21/mplayer/#comment-30 The screensaver API on Linux is a mess. I think the idea behind allowing you to unblank but not to disable is that if your app crashes after disabling the screen saver, it may not have a chance to properly re-enable it before dying. IOW you're supposed to set up a background timer and unblank the screen every 30 seconds while a movie is playing. The screensaver API on Linux is a mess.

I think the idea behind allowing you to unblank but not to disable is that if your app crashes after disabling the screen saver, it may not have a chance to properly re-enable it before dying. IOW you’re supposed to set up a background timer and unblank the screen every 30 seconds while a movie is playing.

]]> By: Name http://blogs.gnome.org/zucchi/2008/04/21/mplayer/#comment-29 Name Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:04:16 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/zucchi/2008/04/21/mplayer/#comment-29 FYI, the SPU hates signed integers. You should use unsigned integers. FYI, the SPU hates signed integers. You should use unsigned integers.

]]> By: Andrea http://blogs.gnome.org/zucchi/2008/04/21/mplayer/#comment-28 Andrea Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:37:21 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/zucchi/2008/04/21/mplayer/#comment-28 Doh! Two typos above, should have used copypasta, I blame my fingers ^__^, the option is"really-quiet"... Doh! Two typos above, should have used copypasta, I blame my fingers ^__^, the option is”really-quiet”…

]]> By: Andrea http://blogs.gnome.org/zucchi/2008/04/21/mplayer/#comment-27 Andrea Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:29:20 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/zucchi/2008/04/21/mplayer/#comment-27 For the log on the console I've in my MPlayer config a "really-quite=yes" line, but it can be used as an option on the command line (-really-quite) or can be controlled with an environment variable (MPLAYER_VERBOSE). For the other gripe, I'm not sure it's what you want as you say "screen blanking" so maybe it's not related to screensavers (maybe Xorg DPMS settings), anyway for the old Xscreensaver (I don't use the Gnome one) I've a "stop-xscreensaver=1" line, again in my config. For the log on the console I’ve in my MPlayer config a “really-quite=yes” line, but it can be used as an option on the command line (-really-quite) or can be controlled with an environment variable (MPLAYER_VERBOSE).

For the other gripe, I’m not sure it’s what you want as you say “screen blanking” so maybe it’s not related to screensavers (maybe Xorg DPMS settings), anyway for the old Xscreensaver (I don’t use the Gnome one) I’ve a “stop-xscreensaver=1″ line, again in my config.

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