[MPlayer-users] mplayer as screensaver

[Mark Veinot]

On Wednesday October 15 2003 1:08 pm, jhollind wrote:
> 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.

Hrmmm you're right. It should work, but it doesn't. I tried it myself, and I 
just get a black screen. I'll keep working on it and let you know if I figure 
anything out.

-Vic