working disable screensaver option

[stefanx]

On my system VLC is not capable to disable the screen saver. Yes, the appropriate option in VLC is enabled. My computer is Windows XP but my company configured it so that the screen saver options are not changeable, even for an user in administrator mode. MPlayer is handling this issue very well and disables the screen saver without any problem. I wish VLC would do so too!

PS: I tried VLC with both 0.8 and 0.9./1.0.

[VLC_help]

One option that I have been thinking is using ghost SendInput messages (like shift down, and shift up). Then we could remove all the screensaver/monitor shutdown code and make it work on restricted environments.

[stefanx]

sounds reasonable. Could I test this on my system?

[VLC_help]

Yes, when I do test build, I will post it here.