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How can I turn off the screen blackout in Linux when playing a film in BBC iPlayer? I usually use it in Chrome, but if there is a way to do it in Firefox (Iceweasel) than it is good enough as well.

I think by default iPlayer uses Flash, but if there is a way to switch to HTML 5 that does the job than I am fine to do it as well.

I know how to turn it off completely, but obviously I want it to save energy in all other circumstances.

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You could manually inhibit power management via D-Bus. – sr_ Jan 19 at 11:51
@sr_, unfortunately I haven't heard about this stuff before. How would I use it? – Grzenio Jan 20 at 14:25
There's a utility called caffeine that purports to turn off screensavers while video is playing. I installed it on kubuntu precise and it crashes. YMMV. – Joe Jan 25 at 20:07

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