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Win 7 entering standby during video playback
Hi all,
I discovered I have the following problem with Win7. The system is set to go to standby after 45 minutes.
However whenever I play videos from the preferred players (XBMC, VLC) the system goes to standby after 45 mins of playback, which is not intended. This only doesn't happen with WMP, ie only WMP works correctly, disabling standby on video playback.
I have run twice powercfg - energy, once with vlc running and once with wmp running, the main differences being the following:
VLC
System Availability Requestsisplay Required Request
The program has made a request to prevent the display from automatically entering a low-power mode.
Requesting Process \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe
WMP
System Availability Requests:System Required Request
The program has made a request to prevent the system from automatically entering sleep.
Requesting Process \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe
As you can see wmp correctly prevents the system from going into standby, while vlc doesn't. Is there any way to correct this, ie manually via powercfg command?
Using Win7 x64.
Many thanks for your replies.
Silkman