[MPlayer-cygwin] Stopping the screensaver in windows

Joey Parrish joey at nicewarrior.org
Wed Aug 10 18:47:40 CEST 2005


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:19:44AM +0200, Anton Ragn-rsson wrote:
> From: <deje at miki.hu>
> >Windows everytime asks all running processes for permission when it tries
> >to start the screensaver. So guess...
> 
> No, that's not true. It only sends SC_SCREENSAVE / SC_MONITORPOWER to the 
> _active_ application, so if the player is not active, the method used in
> vo_directx doesn't help.

If the player is not active, you are probably doing something else with
the PC anyway.  No need to simulate any movement, IMO.

--Joey

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