Answers to: Screen going idle during streaming video

Answer by DBA

DBA — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:19:27 -0400

look at "caffeine". It will do what you want.

You can read all about it at:

https://launchpad.net/~caffeine-developers/+archive/ppa

For Ubuntu, Installing it is just a matter of adding the appropriate archive to your repositories list. You can do that a couple of ways. For a step-by-step, look at:

http://tuxtweaks.com/2010/07/keep-your-screen-awake-with-caffeine/

Good Luck.

Answer by rfelsburg

rfelsburg — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:54:29 -0400

To build on pmarini's response, it sounds like a power management setting.

You can change it so that your monitor isn't turned off x number of minutes.

System -> Preferences -> Power Management

Change the setting to never set display to sleep.

Answer by pmarini

pmarini — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:18:48 -0400

the previous two answers are assuming that you use VLC, is that what you actually use?
other than that, did you check the screensaver setting or if the monitor has some automatic dimming of its own?
did you try other things, like watching a YouTube video longer than 15 minutes or maybe using other video players?

Answer by LiquidPaper

LiquidPaper — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:53:20 -0400

Is a known behaviour (not a bug) as shown here http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=68419

See the last comment about using the "Inhibit Applet" that allows you to disable/modify (temporarily) the power settings.

Right click on the panel (bar on top of the screen)
select "add to panel
search for "inhibit"
click ok

When starting to watch the movie, click on the icon

Answer by Sander Marechal

Sander Marechal — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:33:17 -0400

What video player are you using? Some players support disabling screensavers or certain ACPI events when video is playing. I believe VLC can do this.