VLC Annoying Behavior

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#1

O.k so I thought I could live with it but I just cant. The thing is that when playing a movie with VLC the screen saver starts after 10 min, even if I have choose VLC to disable screen saver when videos are playing.

Easy fix you will say disable screen saver ahead of time if you are planning on watch a movie. The thing is I wouldn’t have to if VLC were working correctly.

I would switch to SMplayer but there is no support for ISO files, and Xine only plays DVDs, Totem has a really bad resolution. So I am just frustrated with Video playing in OpenSuSE.

Please understand I posted this entry that way out of my frustration other than that I love OpenSuSE

#2

You didn’t mention Kaffeine so I guess you are a Gnome user, or what?

#3

Am 30.01.2012 16:06, schrieb Ben0074:
>
> O.k so I thought I could live with it but I just cant. The thing is that
> when playing a movie with VLC the screen saver starts after 10 min, even
> if I have choose VLC to disable screen saver when videos are playing.
>
Seems to be aproblem elsewhere also
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1334234
sorry no workaround, except what Ben0074 proposed, give kaffeine a try.

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#4

Hi Guys thank you for replying I am using Gnome Shell on OpenSuSE 12.1. I have tried 32 BIT and 64 BIT with the same results.

#5

Hi
Either install the presentation extension from
https://extensions.gnome.org or install caffeine I packaged up for the
next release and is in the GNOME:Apps repository for other versions.
http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=caffeine&baseproject=openSUSE%3A12.1&lang=en&exclude_debug=true

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#6

Thank you I will try the Gnome Extension and see how that works. That solution seems to be promising, I will post back with comments or more questions.

Thank you!

#7

Hi, just tell I too had this problem on my laptop but found it was nothing to do with VLC but a KDE default setting which turns off screen after 10 mins even when power is connected. Check out system settings and then power profiles. The global setting should be “performance” and in Profiles the “performance” profile should have all boxes unchecked so times are greyed out. Worked for me.
Regards,
Budgie2

#8

VLC works fine here, though I am running KDE (OS12.1)

I would switch to SMplayer but there is no support for ISO files

If I’m not mistaken MPlayer should support ISO, though not the menues.