Preventing screensaver when playing movie?

[Erik]

Erik skrev:
> Or some even better way? I want it to be implement as an API call in 
> SDL, so that all SDL programs can use it. It is not a good idea to 
> depend on KDE or GNOME since SDL depends on X11 but not KDE or GNOME.
I just found out that mplayer discovered the correct way to handle this. 
"Remove most of the messy screensaver code in favour of only 
XResetScreenSaver":
http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer?view=rev&revision=25637