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Title: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: apturbo on September 17, 2011, 09:35:59 am

Screen Savers used to not come on during movies but now that I've upgraded to MediaCenter160164 it comes on.  I see the option for disabling in theater view but what about the other dozen different ways to watch a movie.  I use detach display on a different monitor.

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: JimH on September 17, 2011, 10:16:27 am

It's worth trying build 176 from the top of this board.

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: Matt on September 17, 2011, 10:17:26 am

Also, try Display View (fullscreen) instead of a detached display.

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: apturbo on September 17, 2011, 10:53:09 am

I'm using 3 different zones so need detached display.

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: Beamer on September 17, 2011, 12:25:41 pm

I believe there may still be an issue with the screen saver timer. After watching a movie (HQ mode V16X) and exiting to Theater view, MC16 went directly into screen saver and no matter what command I sent, I was unable to communicate with MC16 remotely (via Girder USBUIRT Core Commands)

I finally gave up on using a screen saver with version 16X and disabled it and have not tried using it with the 17X versions. The changes list has not mentioned screen saver issue changes and so I naturally assumed nothing has changed. Am I wrong?

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: apturbo on September 17, 2011, 12:52:38 pm

Things are always changing which is why I went back several versions.

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: wer on September 19, 2011, 07:05:33 pm

I noticed the following behavior with .176:

-Play a video all the way through without interruption and the screensaver did NOT come on.

-Play a video part way, hit pause, and after the screensaver timeout, the screensaver WILL come on.  Resuming the movie takes the screensaver off, but then the screensaver will come back on after the timeout even if the video is still playing.

Once the screensaver has come on during a video, the only way to prevent it from coming back was to stop the video, and play it again from the video selection screen, and then don't pause it.

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: Beamer on September 21, 2011, 10:35:02 am

I also experience this phenomenon.

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: WolfWalker on September 21, 2011, 10:54:55 am

same here and also in Theater view

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: JimH on September 21, 2011, 10:56:50 am

Disable Screen Saver in Theater View options.

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: wer on September 21, 2011, 01:34:46 pm

Quote from: JimH on September 21, 2011, 10:56:50 am

Disable Screen Saver in Theater View options.

Yes, but people may want the screensaver to engage when MC is sitting at static menus or playing music.  They never want it to engage if a video is playing.

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: JohnT on September 22, 2011, 08:50:54 am

Quote from: wer on September 19, 2011, 07:05:33 pm

I noticed the following behavior with .176:

-Play a video all the way through without interruption and the screensaver did NOT come on.

-Play a video part way, hit pause, and after the screensaver timeout, the screensaver WILL come on.  Resuming the movie takes the screensaver off, but then the screensaver will come back on after the timeout even if the video is still playing.

Once the screensaver has come on during a video, the only way to prevent it from coming back was to stop the video, and play it again from the video selection screen, and then don't pause it.

I can't repro this problem using build 177.  I'm playing a ripped DVD in theater view with a Windows screensaver set at 1 minute.  I pause the movie (by clicking the pause button on the player bar) and after 1 minute the screensaver kicks in.  I click the play button and the movie resumes.  I wait several minutes but the screensaver does not kick in again.  Maybe if you could outline the exact steps and what type of content you are watching I could try again to repro it here. Thanks.

Title: Re: Screen Savers come on during movies
Post by: wer on September 22, 2011, 10:58:06 am

I don't have access to version 177 to try like you are.  But I'm using a remote instead of keyboard/mouse, so that might make a difference.