DVB Viewer 4.5 Cannot disable screensaver

[Santiago33]

Hi,

yesterday I have downloaded latest version of DVBViewer. In this version, the program is unable to disable screen saver on Windows XP. I have tried to check and uncheck this possibility in main option menu, but no difference (tested on fullscreen, and dvbV still on top). Still the screen saver get activated and no way to disable it by DVBT-V. In version 4.3 everything was working fine. I will send the supportool log later on.

Edited October 7, 2010 by Santiago33

[Santiago33]

support tool log

support.zip

[Griga]

Same here under XP (DVBViewer running with TV playback in window mode).

 

P.S. What is your screensaver timeout? I could reproduce it with 1 minute (I didn't want to wait so long), but not with 2 minutes.

[Santiago33]

Hi,

you are right. I have tried to set timer from 1 minute to 5 minute and now it works. Strange problem. However, in previous versions it works fine even with 1 minute.

 

Santi

[galmok]

I am using Vista 64 and I also just have developed this problem. I have tried adjusting the screensaver timeout from 1 to 10 minutes but except for 1 minute, it keeps kicking in (unless I disable the screensaver ofc).

 

The option "Prevent Screen Saver" option is enabled but doesn't have any effect.

 

With Always on top turned on and DVBViewer showing in a window with focus, the screensaver kicks in with DVBViewer still showing on top. But in fullscreen mode, the screensaver covers DVBViewer.

 

I believe the issue arrive when I accidently started Windows Media Center while DVBViewer was already running. I quit WMC first and later DVBViewer. Since this, DVBViewer doesn't seem to be able to disable the screensaver.

[galmok]

Ok, it seems my problem is with Windows Media Center as other users are having the same problem:

 

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/windows-vista-forum/156107-windows-media-center-enables-screen-saver.html

 

WMC prevents disabling the screensaver for any other program and I haven't found a way to restore the problem except for a reboot (a reboot is not a small matter for my system... always doing lots of stuff and well, I do use it to watch TV ;-) ).