mplayer, dpms problem

[Antonio Olivares]

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From: Kenny Gow <kgfedora at swbell.net>
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Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 4:50:52 AM
Subject: Re: mplayer, dpms problem

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear all,
>   I would like to kindly ask for your advice regarding
> an issue with mplayer.  I have the Gnome power control
> enabled to blank the screen after 2 minutes. 
> Previously, when playing films with mplayer the
> command 
> $ mplayer dvd:// -alang en -stop-xscreensaver 
> worked till the movie finished.  
> In Fedora Core 5 and the new inclusion of
> gnome-screensaver, this also worked.  However, with
> Core 6, mplayer plays the movie but dpms kicks in and
> blanks the screen.  How can I tell dpms not to kick in
> and allow mplayer to play the complete movie without
> blanking the screen?
> 
> I have tried to use
> $ xset -dpms and
> $ xset dpms off but
> Power Savings kicks in and monitor blanks after 2
> minutes.  I do not want to disable power savings on in
> Gnome Power Manager.  I want to find a viable
> solution.  Thank you for your time and advice.  
> 

I have had similar issues on FC5 and FC6.

My solution was to remove the gnome-screensaver package and
install the xscreensaver* packages like it was before. I left
gnome-power-manager installed but set it to Never. I used the
settings in xscreensaver properties to set the screensaver
blank time and the power management timeouts. I put
stop-xscreensaver=yes in my mplayer config file and all
worked fine to let mplayer play without blanking.

A little research led me to these links

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2004-October/030261.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=3a3df3f9dadb56551868b5ddbbafcf08&t=189051

which lead me to believe that the controlling settings always
end up coming from xscreensaver properties.

Regards,
Kenny

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Kenny,
    First of all, I would like to thank you for anwering this thread, since almost everybody else is /* answering the Nvidia sucks */
thread more.  I know that Xine does not allow dpms to kick in and will play a movie from start to finish.  However, sometimes I like to avoid the menus and with mplayer it is quicker.  I tried doing my homework as well 

I recompiled mplayer with some patches for stopping mplayer using mplayer dvd:// -disable-dpms, from here

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/38396/match=mplayer+gui+dpms

Yet this does not work even.  So I do not sure whose fault it is, whether mplayer, or Xorg 7.1.  I checked xine config file in /home/olivares/.xine/ and says video automatic.  I have tried using different mplayer -vo options  like x11, xv, sdl and none have given me success.   I guess I should wait a bit and when newer mplayer releases take care of this problem.

Regards,

Antonio