Bug#958865: mplayer: theora playback broken: vf_get_image: Assertion `h == -1 || h >= vf->h' failed.

[Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au>]

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`.