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Monitor doesn't turn off while playing audio files
Posted: 29 Jun 2013 00:04
by artbio
I enabled the "Inhibit the power management daemon during playback" option. However this completely inhibits the monitor for being turned off even while playing music files. This is to be expected while playing videos. But I would like the monitor to turn off while playing audio files. And without the need to change the preferences before playing audio or video files. This only affects Linux and this behaviour isn't observed on Windows. Yes I use VLC on both operating systems. Is this a bug? Or is it intended to work like I described under Linux?
Thanks in advance!
Re: Monitor doesn't turn off while playing audio files
Posted: 30 Jun 2013 18:32
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
Known bug. Patch welcome.
Re: Monitor doesn't turn off while playing audio files
Posted: 31 Aug 2013 17:56
by artbio
Power management daemon inhibition isn't working at all with vlc 2.1.0-rc1 Even for videos. I am using vdpau. However I don't know if that makes a difference! I will try again with vaapi and no hardware acceleration just to be sure.
Re: Monitor doesn't turn off while playing audio files
Posted: 01 Sep 2013 10:15
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
It mostly depends on the desktop environment, not the output method.
Re: Monitor doesn't turn off while playing audio files
Posted: 01 Sep 2013 17:20
by artbio
I am using Unity. Should I write this information on the bug report?
I should point out that this works in previous VLC versions.
Edit: ticket here ->
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9310