smplayer doesn`t inhibit screensaver when playing movies

[Claude]

Binary package hint: smplayer

like in topic, the newest smplayer doesn`t switch off screensaver when playing movies. My operation system is : Ubuntu 8.04.2 , smplayer version is: 0.6.8 (SVN r3213).

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Have you reported this upstream (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/) ?

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Actually, see also: http://smplayer.berlios.de/forums/viewtopic.php?id=329

[rvm (rvm)]

smplayer just passed the option -stop-xscreensaver to mplayer. If that option doesn't work with your screensaver, as the mplayer manpage suggest, you'd better report the problem to the autor of the screensaver.

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol)]

I don't use any screensaver at all but screen still goes blank after a while even if "disable screensaver" option is turned off.

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol)]

I did some tests - when I execute (btw, it's -stop-xscreensaver, not -stop-screensaver):
$ mplayer MOVIE -stop-xscreensaver
it doesn't go blank. When I execute:
$ smplayer MOVIE
it *does* go blank. So it's definitely smplayer bug, not one of mplayer.

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol)]

Turning off "disable screensaver" option in Smplayer and adding "-stop-xscreensaver" to mplayer options there doesn't work either.

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol)]

Oh, sorry, I use Karmic, not Hardy. Nevertheless, the bug is here.

[rvm (rvm)]

The only thing that smplayer does when the option "disable screensaver" is checked, is to pass the option -stop-xscreensaver to mplayer.

So check if -stop-xscreensaver is really passed to mplayer (you can see it in the mplayer log: Options -> View logs). If that option is not passed then it's a bug in smplayer. Otherwise it's a problem of mplayer.

Anyway it's a known problem that recent versions of mplayer fail to disable the gnome screensaver. For that you have to use the -heartbeat-cmd (and even that may not work).

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

That option is passed, the problem is with mplayer indeed -> bug 505149