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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.

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.

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Bill
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