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BTW: If SC_SCREENSAVE is posted to every program running, some loop jammed program wouldn't handle it all. That would prevent screensaver completely, so I assume there is certain very short time limit to answer to that message. And on some performance critical situations, VLC might not handle it fas...

I don't know if the problem has been solved in the meantime, if not I have a suggestion you can try. Use a CBT hook. It is a type of hook created with SetWindowsHookEx(), see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644990.aspx The following code is in PureBasic (the language I use) but it's so sim...