Bug 4637

Summary: MPV doesn't prevent screen saver/screen dim when in fullscreen
Product: Fedora Reporter: Matt G <email>
Component: mpvAssignee: Miro Hrončok <mhroncok>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: major CC: leigh123linux
Priority: P1    
Version: 26   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: GNU/Linux   
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Description Matt G 2017-08-23 18:53:27 CEST 
MPV doesn't prevent the gnome screen saver/screen dim functions when switching a video to fullscreen.

This doesn't happen on F24 F25, or if I recall the previous version on F26

Version with bug: mpv.x86_64 0.26.0-2.fc26
Comment 1 Miro Hrončok 2017-08-23 21:44:22 CEST 
From man mpv:

       --stop-screensaver, --no-stop-screensaver
              Turns off the screensaver (or screen blanker and similar mechanisms) at startup and turns it on again on exit (default: yes). The screensaver is always re-enabled when the player is paused.

              This is not supported on all video outputs or platforms. Sometimes it is implemented, but does not work (known to happen with GNOME). You might be able to work around this using --heartbeat-cmd instead.

Are you sure this is mpv related and not GNOME related bug?

Could you try explicitly with --stop-screensaver?
Comment 2 Matt G 2017-08-25 00:36:08 CEST 
Hi, thanks for the reply, neither options work though, screen still dims unfortunately
Comment 5 Miro Hrončok 2017-08-25 10:12:43 CEST 
Cool. Leigh, could you pleas apply the patches? I'm not able to do it before next Friday.
Comment 6 leigh scott 2017-08-25 10:45:09 CEST 
(In reply to Miro Hrončok from comment #5)
> Cool. Leigh, could you pleas apply the patches? I'm not able to do it before
> next Friday.

Sorry for the noise, these changes and revert are after 0.26 release.
Comment 7 Matt G 2017-11-23 21:38:02 CET 
Hi, this bug is still in F27 mpv 0.27.0.1
Comment 8 leigh scott 2017-11-24 00:09:47 CET 
Upstream will need to fix this.