I tried asking ‘Ubuntu Asks’ but I still haven't gotten a response from them, so I guess I'm stuck asking here.

I am attempting to use a video as a screensaver (or a playlist of videos), using MPlayer and XScreenSaver. I have added a new screensaver to XScreenSaver containing the following command:

mplayer -nosound -really-quiet -nolirc -nostop-xscreensaver -wid $XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW -fs -loop 0 $HOME/FileDirectoryThatsNoneOfYourBusiness.mp4

In theory, this should make the screensaver use MPlayer to play the video file as a screensaver, but that's not what's happening. When I preview the screen saver, it displays a black screen for one frame and then closes. If I let the screensaver turn on on its own, it's just a black screen. What's going on, why isn't this working? I know my file directory is correct, there shouldn't be any other problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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seriously…nothing? Do I have to give this a second bump?

Tada: http://askubuntu.com/questions/292995/configure-screensaver-in-ubuntu