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More => Old Versions => Media Center 14 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: swinster on February 03, 2010, 02:57:00 pm
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Hi all,
In MC14 I see there is an option to disable the screen saver in Theatre View. Is there anyway to extend this functionality so theat the screen saver can be disabled simply when a say a video is being played in Full Screen mode?
Cheers,
Chris
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It would also appear that the disable screen save in theatre mode isn't working as it should on my Vista platform as the screen saver keeps cutting in.
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The screen saver is always disabled during fullscreen playback.
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The screen saver is always disabled during fullscreen playback.
oh dear - this doesn't seem to work with me.
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Disable any compatibility modes or software that might interfere.
For us disabling the screen saver is a simple case of responding to WM_SYSCOMMAND / SC_SCREENSAVE, so I can't think what could go wrong. It does work properly on the machines I use regularly.
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Ok. I have an idea. I actually use SBS 2003 and apply some setting using AD and have one setting that enforces a password on screen saver (although the timer and screen saver themselves are now left unconfigured). I will diable this setting and let you know how it works. If so I will creat a special group for the Media Centre machine.
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I don't think this is a AD setting issue. I have set the screen saver to a 1 minute timeout and when running VLC, the screen saver doesn't start. However, when runing a video in MC14, the screen saver will continue to interrupt.
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I don't think this is a AD setting issue. I have set the screen saver to a 1 minute timeout and when running VLC, the screen saver doesn't start. However, when runing a video in MC14, the screen saver will continue to interrupt.
Right, I did some testing with this and it seem that setting the AD GPO settings do make a difference. The policy that does it is:
User Config --> Policies --> Admin Templates --> Control Panel --> Display -> Screen Saver = Enable
The odd thing is that this only appear to cause an issue when the "Password protect on Resume" setting is enabled, either via gpo or manually.
The really odd thing though is the VLC doesn't have a problem with any of this, so what every they do, theu must disable the screen saver in a slightly different way