--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > Regards, > > Antonio > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail > beta. > http://new.mail.yahoo.com > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Sorry to reply to my own post, but here's an example what I have tried so far, [olivares@localhost singles]$ xset -q Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002 auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffdfffdfe5ef ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors: default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215 Font Path: unix/:7100,built-ins Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On Font cache: Server does not have the FontCache Extension File paths: Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modules path: /usr/lib/xorg/modules Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log [olivares@localhost singles]$ xset dpms off xset: unknown option off usage: xset [-display host:dpy] option ... To turn bell off: -b b off b 0 To set bell volume, pitch and duration: b [vol [pitch [dur]]] b on To disable bug compatibility mode: -bc To enable bug compatibility mode: bc To turn keyclick off: -c c off c 0 To set keyclick volume: c [0-100] c on To control Energy Star (DPMS) features: -dpms Energy Star features off +dpms Energy Star features on dpms [standby [suspend [off]]] force standby force suspend force off force on (also implicitly enables DPMS features) a timeout value of zero disables the mode To control font cache: fc [hi-mark [low-mark [balance]]] both mark values spcecified in KB balance value spcecified in percent (10 - 90) Show font cache statistics: fc s To set the font path: fp= path[,path...] To restore the default font path: fp default To have the server reread font databases: fp rehash To remove elements from font path: -fp path[,path...] fp- path[,path...] To prepend or append elements to font path: +fp path[,path...] fp+ path[,path...] To set LED states off or on: -led [1-32] led off led [1-32] led on To set mouse acceleration and threshold: m [acc_mult[/acc_div] [thr]] m default To set pixel colors: p pixel_value color_name To turn auto-repeat off or on: -r [keycode] r off r [keycode] r on r rate [delay [rate]] For screen-saver control: s [timeout [cycle]] s default s on s blank s noblank s off s expose s noexpose s activate s reset For status information: q [olivares@localhost singles]$ xset -dpms [olivares@localhost singles]$ xset q Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002 auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffdfffdfe5ef ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors: default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215 Font Path: unix/:7100,built-ins Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Disabled Font cache: Server does not have the FontCache Extension File paths: Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modules path: /usr/lib/xorg/modules Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log [olivares@localhost singles]$ mplayer dvd:// -alang en -stop-xscreensaver MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE Playing dvd://. There are 13 titles on this DVD. There are 22 chapters in this DVD title. There are 1 angles in this DVD title. audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128. audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (5.1) language: fr aid: 129. audio stream: 2 format: ac3 (5.1) language: es aid: 130. number of audio channels on disk: 3. subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: fr subtitle ( sid ): 2 language: es number of subtitles on disk: 3 Selected DVD audio channel: 128 language: en MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 7500.0 kbps (937.5 kbyte/s) xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window. ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [xv] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12 A: 0.5 V: 0.5 A-V: 0.015 ct: 0.030 15/ 12 ??% ??% ??,?% 4 0 demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate. A: 123.8 V: 123.8 A-V: 0.005 ct: 0.067 2972/2969 12% 1% 1.7% 9 0 A: 136.9 V: 136.9 A-V: 0.026 ct: 0.066 3286/3283 12% 1% 1.7% 12 0 Exiting... (Quit) [olivares@localhost singles]$ xset q Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002 auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffdfffdfe5ef ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors: default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215 Font Path: unix/:7100,built-ins Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On Font cache: Server does not have the FontCache Extension File paths: Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modules path: /usr/lib/xorg/modules Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log [olivares@localhost singles]$ man xset [olivares@localhost singles]$ xset -dpms [olivares@localhost singles]$ xset q Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002 auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffdfffdfe5ef ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors: default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215 Font Path: unix/:7100,built-ins Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Disabled Font cache: Server does not have the FontCache Extension File paths: Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modules path: /usr/lib/xorg/modules Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log [olivares@localhost singles]$ mplayer dvd:// -alang en -stop-xscreensaver MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE Playing dvd://. There are 13 titles on this DVD. There are 22 chapters in this DVD title. There are 1 angles in this DVD title. audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128. audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (5.1) language: fr aid: 129. audio stream: 2 format: ac3 (5.1) language: es aid: 130. number of audio channels on disk: 3. subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: fr subtitle ( sid ): 2 language: es number of subtitles on disk: 3 Selected DVD audio channel: 128 language: en MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 7500.0 kbps (937.5 kbyte/s) xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window. ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [xv] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12 A: 0.5 V: 0.5 A-V: 0.023 ct: 0.026 15/ 12 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate. A: 128.1 V: 128.0 A-V: 0.006 ct: 0.068 3074/3071 13% 1% 1.3% 0 0 Exiting... (Quit) [olivares@localhost singles]$ xset q Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002 auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffdfffdfe5ef ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors: default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215 Font Path: unix/:7100,built-ins Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On Font cache: Server does not have the FontCache Extension File paths: Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modules path: /usr/lib/xorg/modules Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log [olivares@localhost singles]$ If you follow closely along, I manually disable dpms using xset -dpms, and try to play the movie, but then it automatically enables despite the command not to do it. Somewhere I read that it was a bug in Xorg, but I could not find it. Thank you for your help/advice, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
