Can VLC Keep Screen From Blanking?

hypertyper · 2011-12-16 18:43:21

I've only seen solutions where screen blanking was changed to very long timeouts so it stays on while watching a movie. Is there a way VLC can keep the screen alive without changing the otherwise global setting?

Thanks

karol · 2011-12-16 18:57:40

Why don't you want to do it the global way?

You can disable blanking altogether, play the move and enable it again:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 23#p875423
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 77#p962877

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29762 is another way to do it.

shulamy · 2011-12-16 19:37:57

if i remember corectly there is an option

to disable screensaver some where in vlc options.

ezik

karol · 2011-12-16 19:41:33

shulamy wrote:

if i remember corectly there is an option
to disable screensaver some where in vlc options.
ezik

Not sure if screensaver = dpms.

Yes, vlc should be able to stop the screensaver but some people reported problems with this feature, not sure if it's solved:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 15#p873715
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 03#p693103

stefanwilkens · 2011-12-16 20:01:28

For what it's worth, smplayer has a feature to disable the screensaver.

I believe this uses mplayer's stop-xscreensaver=yes feature

hypertyper · 2011-12-16 20:06:38

Thanks for the links. I must have searched using the wrong words

Caffeine wants to install a bunch of stuff so I'm not keen.

Apparently VLC can keep dpms from switching off the screen but the screensaver can still kick in. I've tried disabling the screensaver to see if that does the trick.

kokoko3k · 2011-12-16 20:07:13

edit: too late

Last edited by kokoko3k (2011-12-16 20:08:22)

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Can VLC Keep Screen From Blanking?

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