On 26/4/20 5:22 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: > I'll have to see if mpv can pull off the same trick as mplayer.
Turns out it can: stuartl@vk4msl-nb:~$ cat .screensavers/playrandom.sh #!/bin/bash if [ -n "$1" ]; then XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW=$1 fi exec /usr/bin/mpv --no-audio --fs --really-quiet \ ${XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW+--wid} \ $XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW \ --no-stop-screensaver \ --shuffle \ /home/stuartl/.screensavers/*.ogv \ /home/stuartl/.screensavers/*/*.ogv and my Ogg/Theora videos play with it… so okay, time to `apt-get purge mplayer`.