Screen going off while transfering via wifi

[XHLX]

Hey, I have been transfering files quite often via wifi but, half the time, the screen goes off in the middle of the transfer and a semi large transference of files fail midthrough.

I tend to transfer 1 to 10 GB of files each time. Each 1 GB takes about 5 minutes via wifi

I have the option to turn off the ipad screen each 2 minutes after no usage. Some times, while transfering, the ipad wont shut down it's screen, but the majority of times it happens (screen going off) and the transfer fails. To minimize the problem, I can set the ipad to turn off after 15 minutes or never, but it would be nice if vlc would prevent the screen going off properly, so that I can do other tasks while transfering files and it would help save battery and avoid transfer errors :>

[fkuehne]

I assume that you are transferring multiple files at the time and sometimes it is interrupted and sometimes not?

[XHLX]

Yes, some times the screen stays on while transfering 1 or multiple files and the transfer succeed

Other times, the screen goes off after 2 minutes and the transfer fails

[XHLX]

I might have something for closure on this topic: a possible fix for a future release, or a work around in case someone experiences this

I'm not 100% certain of this due to lack of time to test more, but it seems the vlc media player WIFI transfer was designed to refresh the screen everytime a new transfer started, and a requisite for a successful transfer seems to be that the screen stays on while transfering via WIFI

If you transfers a lot of GBs but the files aren't too large each (from lets say 5 MB to 900 MB), the screen will refresh often and the transfer will succeed

If you transfer files of 1 GB or higher (depending on your router and ipad wifi speed), chances are the screen will go off while the transfers are in progress and they will fail. My ipad has the options to shut down the screen at 2 mins, 5 mins, 10 mins, 15 mins or never. My wifi transfer speed for the ipad is only 1 gb each 5 minutes. If I transfer a video of more than 3 GB. setting the screen timer to 15 minutes won't be enough. I'm guessing many users have slow speed too, although not many need to transfer big files via wifi.

Workaround: the users might need to configure the screen timer to never turn it off, then set an alarm to restore the timer back to 2 or 5 minutes. This is a minor inconvenience but will make the wifi transfer successful.

Possible solution: make VLC software refresh the screen every minute for example, WHILE a transfer is in progress, if it's not too hard to implement.

I hope I wasn't too long winded