play video while screen is off
 

Hello

how to disable video preview on screen while playin video , , sometime i stream my video clips to my car thru FM TR , but the battery ends too soon . i thought if there way to disable video preview on the screen that would save some power . it going be like just an audio file but its video. there was a script to record video while no image shown on the screen i believe the script was called pycam , So it could be done to playing video while screen is dim, now if i simple switch screen off while video is playing then the video will stop >

Re: play video while screen is off
 

a first try:

gst-launch-0.10 playbin2 flags=0x02 uri=file:///home/user/MyDocs/VIDEOFILE

uri is the url to your videofile
flags=0x02 means only audio is played

maybe someone else can pack this in a nice python script.


Nicolai

Re: play video while screen is off
 

thank you nicolai , worked Great , but am no developer nor script writer .. wish there is way to make shortcut on desktop to enable/disable.

thank you anyway

Re: play video while screen is off
 

You could use SiB/Kmplayer/etc that will keep playing the file even after screen going of, but the video will still be processed (but the screen won't use any energy - that's how I see/listen most of my podcasts in video form).

Re: play video while screen is off
 

Yeah. Install mplayer and SIB for video playback even when screen is off.
mplayer also gives you some really handy hw keyboard controls.

Re: play video while screen is off
 

Thx Ya All , going try mplayer and SIB