On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:10:58 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

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Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Wolf
K writes:
On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was
playing. That seems weird.

Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors
keyboard/mouse input.

Wolf K.

Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but
not all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some
systems).

Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a
problem.

But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player
Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with
Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped
playing. So which video players exhibit this problem?

I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD.

I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had
this problem, thanks.

There are more applications it happened too. I just never kept track
which ones it works and which ones it doesn't. You would think Windows
is smart enough to figure it out, but I guess not.

No, I never assumed Windows should be able to figure it out. I assumed
it was up to the application to signal the OS that it wanted to
override the default power settings.

Another thing annoying about the blank screen setting was I could
walk away for hours and fully expecting the monitor to be blanked
when I came back and only to find it is still on. So sometimes it
just doesn't work. So I use something that actually works, the power
button. ;-)

Yeah, I mentioned an example of that above. View a youtube video, let
it finish playing, and walk away. Somehow, it prevents the screen from
going dark, even though nothing is playing anymore. Flip to a
non-youtube tab and it works as expected.

I use the power buttons on some systems, and I let Windows handle it
on others. Both ways work for me.

I think the worst is when Windows focus is on the desktop. That almost
never allows the monitor to blank. I just learned over the years to just
never trust it. As sometimes it doesn't kick in when you want it and
does when you don't want it.

In my experience, one of the foolproof ways to make sure the monitor
blanks when it should is to put the focus on the desktop. It's
interesting that that doesn't work as reliably for you when it's 100%
reliable on all of my systems.

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Char Jackson