[MPlayer-cygwin] Stopping the screensaver in windows

[Sascha Sommer]

On Friday 05 August 2005 02:16, Steven Neisius wrote:
> I got tired of the windows screen saver coming on while watching videos
> during movies on mplayer.  I decided to build a little batch file to
> work around it. It turned out to be 3 (short) files but I was wondering
> if it could get intergrated into the source for other peoples enjoyment.
>
> mplayer.bat
>     set run=%~dp0                      #makes var for current dir that
> mplayer ran from
>     regedit /s %run%ssoff.reg     #turns off screen saver for current
> user via reg key
>     %run%mplayer.exe %*           #runs mplayer, passing command line
> options
>     regedit /s %run%sson.reg     #turns screen saver back on
>
> ssoff.reg
>     Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
>     [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
>     "ScreenSaveActive"="0"
>
> sson.reg
>     Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
>     [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
>     "ScreenSaveActive"="1"
>
> Thats about it... so if theres some way to make thoes changes within the
> normal program then it would be cool. =)
>

Sure. If the above registry changes are all that are needed and noone is 
against. I'll implement something like this.

Sascha