[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: XScreenSaver Extension

[Diego Biurrun]

Christian Zuckschwerdt writes:
 > 
 > > > > how about adding code to deal with XScreenSaver?
 > 
 > > Alex Beregszaszi writes:
 > > > It's already implemented since ages.
 > 
 > Diego Biurrun writes:
 > > Very interesting, because it has never worked for me.  Is it supposed
 > > to be activated somehow or should it work automatically?  There is
 > > nothing in the docs about it, just a credit:
 > 
 > While grep'ing mplayer's code the other day I found no evidence of such a
 > function. Ok I obviously missed the line in the docs. Like Diego says it's
 > not working out-of-the-box, though.
 > 
 > If I understand the source (libvo/vo_sdl.c, libvo/x11_common.c) correctly
 > the screensaver feature is specific to vo x11 and sdl, right?
 > I use vo=xv. And that seems to be a common choice too.

Hmm, xscreensaver starts even if I use -vo x11 :-(

Shouldn't this be independent of the video out method anyway, well in
a perfect world, at least.

Diego