[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: mplayer and xscreensaver problems

[Arpi]

Hi,

> 
> I've communicated with xscreensaver author and he made rather good point
> that mplayer should periodically issue "wake-up" commands to xscreensaver
> rather terminating and restarting it.
> I have a simple patch to implement such technique, the only thing I have
> trouble doing is letting xscreensaver behave regularly when mplayer is
> paused.

you mean "his method", so executing a shell command every second?
it's simply dumb & nonsense and makes playback jerky
it may work for multithreaded players but won't for mplayer...

search teh archive, this was discussed in a too long thread already here


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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