Re: Screen Saver During Playback

Hi zachd,

Well, the problem I'm having is that if I am watching streaming content, XP
Media Center is dimming my display, hence the video is gone. The content
keeps play, I can hear the audio. What I have to keep on doing is either
moving my mouse slightly or depressing the volume +/- button on my Microsoft
Media Center Remote. Then the video comes back on. This keeps on happening
every 20 minutes. The only way around it seems to turn off power management
for the monitor. That is a burden, since then after watching, I would have to
turn it back on again each time.

What I don't understand is that the PC is not really inactive - there is
video playing which is using CPU cycles and there is audio as well. I can't
find any setting within Media Player that will allow it to play without this
interruption. I did find the check box that allows the screen player to be
turned On or Off during video playback and it was "Unchecked" - so the video
is not interrupted by the screen saver.

Is there a setting I'm missing here to allow the video to continue to
display on the monitor without having to diable "Power Management" for the
monitor each time?

Thanks,

Roger

"zachd [ms]" wrote:


WMP's Tools:Options . You only get one global checkbox here, though,
there's no specific audio/video option.

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"Skier7667" <Skier7667@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Anger,

Where is this option to allow the screen saver to activate duing playback
if
listening to music. Mine is coming on while watching a video stream in
Media
Player and it wasn't before. I believe something might have changed.

Please let me know!
Thanks,
Roger

"Anger" wrote:

This option to Allow Sreen Saver during playback is nice if I'm listening
to
music but if I'm watching a movie I don't want my screen saver to start.
I
don't know if this is the right way of going about this but maybe someone
out
there might know someone who can get this changed or modified to exclude
the
screensaver during the playing of movies and allowing it during music. I
am
using Windows Media Player Version: 10.00.00.4036.
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Anger



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