Thread: MPlayer which version is suitable
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2007-05-04 , 16:37
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#438
Originally Posted by Serge View Post
That's strange, blanking should be disabled on video playback. Can you provide some more details about how to reproduce this problem (your power management settings, etc.)?
Hi Serge. It may actually be a problem specific to the patched xserver (I used Fanoush's deb) - I'm not able to reproduce the problem with the stock xserver.

When running mplayer from the command line with the patched xserver (extra detail - I had sudo'd to root) the screen will blank - my settings are 2 and 5 minutes, LED enabled, Lock screen & keys not checked, default brightness 7 bars. When running mplayer via the GUI app the screen doesn't dim/blank - it's only a problem when using the command line. Nothing special on the command line - just "mplayer -benchmark -quiet <filename>".

Since it appears specific to the patched xserver, it's possibly a bug or issue introduced since the last 3.2007.10-7 release, or a patch build.