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neilward

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 21

Unable to play video with xscreensaver using mplayer

Hello,
I recently stumbled across http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#mpeg. I followed these instructions for using mplayer to play videos with xscreensaver:

     "My Movie"  mplayer -really-quiet -nosound -nolirc        \n\
                   -nostop-xscreensaver                        \n\
                   -wid $XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW                   \n\
                   -fs -loop 0                                 \n\
                   $HOME/movies/my_movie.mp4                   \n\

Unfortunately, I can't get it to work due to the following error:

Unknown option on the command line: -window-id

I thought that I might be able to replace $XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW \n\ with a specific -window-id, but I have no idea how to find it.

Can anybody help?

I am using fluxbox 1.1.1-1, xscreensaver 5.10-3, and mplayer 29776-4.4.1