Thread: MPlayer which version is suitable
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Serge is offline Serge
2007-05-04 , 19:59
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#440
Originally Posted by Milhouse View Post
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>".
Thanks for the detailed description, that's an excellent example of ideal bugreport

Apparently it is running mplayer after logging as user and doing 'sudo gainroot' does not let blanking prevention to work properly. Moreover, I just tested mplayer on Nokia 770 and it just crashes in the same circumstances. When just running mplayer as user or root without sudo stuff, everything works properly. The patched xserver is not responsible for this issue. The problem existed in mplayer since the very beginning, but was not noticed before as mplayer is not usually run in such a way (and it should never happen when mplayer is launched from gui). This bug is not very serious and can be easily avoided on normal mplayer use, but I'll try to see what can be done to fix it.

By the way, you can get original unmodified N800 xserver back by downloading and reinstalling it from http://repository.maemo.org/pool/bor...so31_armel.deb

And a warning for Nokia 770 users (forgot to mention it in my announcement post, but this should be quite obvious anyway) - don't try to install this patched xserver on your devices even if you have OS2007 hackers edition, or at least don't blame me if you do (this particular video improvement is N800 hardware specific, so has no chances to be useful on Nokia 770).