Display not sleeping when VLC paused?

[mr cone]

Hi All...Happy holidays!

Using VLC/OSX 10.4.3/Powerbook

When I pause a movie with VLC (and either leave it on screen or minimize it to the dock), if I go away for a while and come back, my screen has not dimmed or shut off. I have confirmed that this only happens with VLC having a movie paused. If VLC is not running, the screen sleeps in it's normal 5~6 minutes. Any ideas?

[Guest]

It doesn't happen just happen when the movie is paused. It also happens when the movie is playing. This is, of course, intentional.

I guess VLC should stop resetting the timer when the movie is paused tho.

[mr cone]

Ah yes, of course, that makes sense.
If it's paused though, it should let control of the screen up...

[fkuehne]

Hello guys,
I've just created a ticket concerning this issue, so your notes aren't lost and might be fixed in the next release. Thanks for your feedback.

[mredamon]

The ticket says this is fixed, but I have the same issue currently in windows 7 sp1 VLC version 2.1.3 --- seems simple enough, if the video is paused, VLC should release the disable hold on the idle timer/ (powercfg -requests)

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

The ticket says this is fixed, but I have the same issue currently in windows 7 sp1 VLC version 2.1.3 --- seems simple enough, if the video is paused, VLC should release the disable hold on the idle timer/ (powercfg -requests)

DO NOT hijack threads.

[mredamon]

I assume you say I'm hijacking because I mention the wrong platform. Sorry, my message should have read:

The ticket says this is fixed, but I have the same issue currently in Mac OSX 10.9.2 VLC Version 2.1.4 Rincewind (Intel 64bit) --- seems simple enough, if the video is paused, VLC should release the PreventUserIdleSystemSleep assertions (pmset -g assertions)