id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	reproduced	analyzed
436	ffplay disables DPMS timeouts; no way to re-enable them during play	tpavlic	michael	"ffplay (and mplayer) appears to disable DPMS timeouts while it runs. I can verify that ""xset q"" shows that DPMS is enabled and timeouts are set correctly; however, so long as ffplay (or mplayer) are open, monitors refuse to sleep.

With mplayer, I can at least issue an ""xset dpms force off"" and the monitors will turn off and stay off, but standby and suspend are impossible (monitors pop back on). With ffplay, even ""xset dpms force off"" causes monitors to pop back on.

I can understand why this is a desirable behavior for playing movies. However, some applications (e.g., the electricsheep screen saver) are not deteriorated by allowing monitors to sleep. So there should be a way to turn off this DPMS-dodging feature of ffplay (and mplayer).



"	defect	closed	normal	FFplay	git-oldabi	invalid	DPMS				0	1