VLC player doesn't prevent PC from going to sleep mode

[Nabukodonosor]

Hey guys. So, I have the latest version of VLC player on my Windows 7 x64 machine. I use MPC-HC and VLC, one for h264 and the other for h265 material. I don't have issues with MPC, I can watch movies for hours, and the PC would never go in the sleep mode. But when I use VLC player, my PC goes to sleep mode after 20 minutes (this is set up in Windows settings). The "Disable screensaver" option is checked. Any ideas?

[Lotesdelere]

There are few other reports saying the same thing but I have no idea where the problem lies since I can't reproduce the issue.
Maybe a some driver issue ? Because of some other device ?

[Nabukodonosor]

There's no way I can know that. VLC is the only player that has this issue, so I think it's something with it that needs fixing.

[pzich]

I still frequently encounter this issue, and it also only happens with VLC and not other media players.

From what I can tell, this usually happens when I double-click a media file in Explorer and it starts automatically playing. It seems that if I explicitly pause and play after opening the media, the screensaver properly disables.

[triX]

The issue seems to occur when VLC is opened first and videos are added to the playlist but does not happen when a file is double clicked and the video plays after.