[MPlayer-users] mplayer as screensaver
jhollind
jhollind at hollindenfamily.org
Wed Oct 15 18:08:43 CEST 2003
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:30:39 -0300, Mark Veinot wrote
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Friday October 10 2003 12:01 pm, Van Leer wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi all, I was wandering about using the mplayer as a scrren saver. I
> > would like to show a move during inactivity. Is there anybody who has
> > been successfull doing something like that.
> > I've read all the documentation but don't remember such an argument.
>
> Try XScreensaver http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver
>
> Any program that can draw to the X root window can be used as a
> screen saver module.
>
> A suitable line to execute mplayer for use in xscreensaver might be:
>
> mplayer -vo xv -rootwin -fs moviefile.mpg
>
> --Mark
I've been trying this, and I'm only 50% there. From a prompt it works as
expected, but from within xscreensaver I only hear it, but nothing is
displayed. My command from xscreensaver-demo is:
mplayer -vo xv -rootwin -fs -loop 0 /path/to/mymovie.mov
I tried adding a &> /dev/null to the end, wondering if the mplayer output was
messing it up, but it didn't help. I'm running MPlayer 1.0pre1-3.3.1.
Any ideas?
For whoever plans to use this, don't forget a -loop 0 so it keeps repeating.
I can hear that it pauses during a failed passwd, and starts back where it
left off, which is cool.
Thanks...
--
Jason
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