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Hello

Changing to Windows 8 I experience a new problem: After perhaps 30 Minutes the PC goes to sleep, even VLC plays a movie and the screen newer turned off.

My energy settings: Screen off after 2 minutes, sleep after 10 minutes.

On Windows Vista I experienced no trouble with the same settings... An Idea?

Regards,
Bruno
(VLC 2.04)

This is weird. Nowhere is 30minutes?

No. Weird is also, that it goes instantly to sleep...

No one else experiencing something similar?

Me too. Sleep set to 10mins. Was working fine under W7 but under W8 goes to sleep after about 30mins. The PC was upgraded from W7 to W8

Weird. Double weird. Where does this timer come from?

Solution: Start VLC with administrator rights.

Reproduce: Set the energy settings to "screen off after 1 minute", "pc sleep after 2 minutes".

Without administrator rights your screen will never go off, but your PC will sleep after 2-3 minutes. It seems that Win8 demands administrator rights for preventing sleep... Don't know from where these 30 minutes came, but now o.k.

Because of the VLC 2.0.0 sleep/standby issue I checked also VLC 1.0.3 and 1.1.4. Both will sleep without admin rights, so this is really a Win8-Issue, not VLC 2.x

The need to start VLC with admin rights creates additional trouble:
- to start VLC from Excel-VBA, Excel has to run with admin rights too (or better: start VLC through *.bat)
- to use Volumouse inside VLC, you have to give admin rights to Volumouse
- to use Autohotkey during active VLC, you have to give admin rights to Authotkey (there are more reasons to run Autohotkey as admin so no problem)
...

Stupid Win8 ...

I run VLC on Windows 8 64bit and have no such issues.
PC does not sleep at all during 2 hour DVD. VLC is running in normal mode (no admin privs needed).
My power settings which are by default: dim screen 3 min, screen off 15min, pc off 25 min
I suggest it is not Windows 8, but something in your settings.

Sure you have no "hacks" on your side, like disabling UAC or similar?

Bump Bump Bump..

I was watching a movie a couple of nights ago with the family and something came up so I paused the movie we were watching via VLC. We didn't end up coming back to watch the movie on the same day. So.. a couple of day's later I go to the basement, where we were watching the movie, and I see / hear (lots of fans on this box) that the computer is still running. The voice in my head says, ohh yeah.. you put the movie on pause and VLC prevents the computer from going to sleep while the movie is on pause...

Guys, please fix this problem.. Yeah, I know.. I could close the app or stop the file.. but live happens and I'd really like it if VLC didn't prevent the computer from going to sleep when the movie was paused.. I love the fact that VLC will prevent the computer from going to sleep while it is playing but can this feature be limited to when a movie is being played?

Thank you in advance!

Your environmentally friendly neighbor to the North.

(btw: The 30'-problem has been fixed with some later Win8-Updates.)