[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Display blanking prevention for maemo (Nokia 770/N800)

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Sunday 13 May 2007 19:35, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:30:47PM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> > This patch adds display blanking prevention which is very important for
> > video playback on Nokia internet tablets. Power management turns display
> > off after some time of inactivity to save battery. But when the user is
> > watching video, this behaviour is undesirable and very annoying (to the
> > point of making video player unusable).
> >
> > This is the final revision of the code which now successfully works on
> > both Nokia 770 and Nokia N800 [1] and hopefully will work properly on any
> > other maemo devices that might be released in the future.
> >
> > 1. https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mplayer/
>
> This code belongs in the relevant vo module, not mplayer.c

Blanking prevention needs to be used with any vo module. It is more related
to power management, but not video output directly. Relevant vo modules are:
xv, x11, sdl, nokia770 (custom framebuffer based module)

Alternative solution would need to have all of them patched, which is a lot
uglier and needs more lines of code. I agree that mplayer.c contains too 
much code already, but I don't see anything better (except for moving all the
screensaver related stuff to some other file). Thoughts?