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My screensaver is no longer being disabled when videos are playing. I found the setting in the video options to turn this on and off, and I've flipped that several times to no avail. I did recently install a new screensaver that I downloaded and it didn't install entirely correctly (it didn't copy into the win32 folder when I installed it so it was running from somewhere else for awhile, I manually moved it over and now it works right). Could that be the cause of this problem, and in any case, how can I fix it?

General info: I'm running v0.8.6c, on WinXP Home with SP2.

Thanks much in advance for any assistance!

Still having this problem... anyone have any idea what's wrong? It's getting rather annoying to have to switch my screensaver off when I want to watch a movie or something.

i'm having the same problem with my laptop. Is there any solutions out there for this?

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could you try those builds and say if the screen saver disabling works any better?

I actually figured out what was causing this - I'd hit "Set Video mode to OpenGL". By going through the video quick settings and setting the video mode to DirectX, it works fine. (And the video quality improved as well.)

For easy understanding, the below instructions are shown in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyPbhwjBn0

Since this problem is related to the operating system of any computer, this solution works for any other video player which has the same problem on screensavers.

How to disable VLC player's Screensaver for good!

While playing or after played a video on VLC, the Windows screensaver will come on (activate).

The settings option within the VLC won't work to disable it. See the path:

VLC -Tools - Preferences Go to left bottom column at Show settings and activate All button. Navigate down to Video section. Mark the option "Disable screensaver" All that won't disable the screensaver because VLC is related to your Windows settings for screensaver.

Therefore, go to Desktop, right-click, and go to Screensaver options. In Windows Vista is: right-click on Desktop - Personalize - Screen Saver.

Look at "Wait" value. If it says 10 minutes, VLC will activate the screensaver after 10 minutes of idle, EVEN THOUGH your windows screensaver is deactivated. If it say 1 minute, VLC will do it after 1 minute, and so on.

To fix all this problem, is to cheat: change the value to a very high one, like 480 minutes.

Change the value activating the screen saver and deactivating it just like i did before.

From now on, VLC won't bother you at all.