Mplayer doesn't stop gnome screensaver

Hi !
I'm using the option stop-xscreensave="yes" in mplayer config but after about 5 minutes of playing the movie the screen fades away and i have to login in order to get to mplayer again
How can i stop this from happening ?
Thanks a lot !

Here's my tv watching script..
#!/bin/sh
# inhibit the screensaver and output to the tv (display 0.2)
# gnome-screensaver-command -i -r "Watching Videos" &
xscreensaver-command -exit
DISPLAY=:0.2 mplayer -fs "$@"
# killall gnome-screensaver-command
xscreensaver -no-splash &
You'ld probably want something more like
#!/bin/sh
# inhibit the screensaver and output to the tv
gnome-screensaver-command -i -r "Watching Videos" &
mplayer -fs "$@"
killall gnome-screensaver-command
Not sure if it is the most efficient way, but I believe it worked.
You would just copy that to a file named tv.sh (or tv or watch or foo), make the file executable (chmod 755 tv.sh), put it in your path somewhere (/usr/local/bin if that's in your path), and then type tv.sh filename to start watching (but I imagine you already knew all that).
If you use a graphical player. I dunno. The player might have an option? Or else just run the `gnome-screensaver-command -i -r "Watching Videos"` part in a term and kill it when your done. Or run it from an Alt-F2 dialog with & and kill it when your done might work. Something to tinker with..

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