[MPlayer-cygwin] Stopping the screensaver in windows

[Sascha Sommer]

On Friday 05 August 2005 18:32, Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:44:04PM +0200, deje at miki.hu wrote:
> > Sorry for bothering but I think registry changes like this should be
> > avoided greatly, and use windows api calls instead - it is much more
> > portable. Anyway directx driver includes the ability to disable
> > screensaver, which works well, other drivers miss it. The main reason is
> > that when windows tries to start screensaver, it sends a win message to
> > the message handler of the process, asking whether it can start it or
> > not. This is the clean and preferred way (vo_directx works this way),
> > and this method should be implemented in other output drivers also.
> > I personally don't like when a user program changes system settings,
> > because it may hang and won't reset that setting after killing it.
> > That is my opinion about this.
>
> I agree.
>

Ok dropped the idea then.

Sascha