On 06/04/2012 23:38, Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, wrote:

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

I thought this was a Power DVD *plus* point. I haven't used Power DVD in
years either but you certainly do not want the screen to go blank in the
middle watching an XXX rated movie; or do you?

-- choro


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.