Couple of times now, I've been watching a film and around fifteen or so minutes in to it the display switches off. It seems the display preferences are kicking in, but surely Quicktime should be preventing that?
Didn't use to happen on Quicktime 6 I'm pretty sure.
Cheers, Ian
In article 3e1sicFq041U2@redacted.invalid, Ian McCall ian@redacted.invalid wrote:
Couple of times now, I've been watching a film and around fifteen or so minutes in to it the display switches off. It seems the display preferences are kicking in, but surely Quicktime should be preventing that?
Didn't use to happen on Quicktime 6 I'm pretty sure.
It did here. I just had to remember to do a sys pref energy save display sleep never before any serious DVD watching.
Cheers, Ian
On 2005-05-06 19:53:33 +0100, Elliott Roper nospam@redacted.invalid said:
In article 3e1sicFq041U2@redacted.invalid, Ian McCall ian@redacted.invalid wrote:
Didn't use to happen on Quicktime 6 I'm pretty sure.
It did here. I just had to remember to do a sys pref energy save display sleep never before any serious DVD watching.
Hmm, that's interesting in itself. I watch films on the Mac every single night - it's a routine for the kids that after they come out of the bath they come into daddy's room (ha! How that phrase is going to be embarrass them when they come across this posting twenty years later...) and watch at least some of a film, normally a Pixar offering or Jungle Book.
Maybe I set a preference somewhere, but I don't remember doing so. Most odd.
Cheers, Ian
Ian McCall ian@redacted.invalid wrote:
Didn't use to happen on Quicktime 6 I'm pretty sure.
It certainly does. A tiny precautionary nudge of the mouse heads it off.
Ian McCall ian@redacted.invalid wrote:
Couple of times now, I've been watching a film and around fifteen or so minutes in to it the display switches off. It seems the display preferences are kicking in, but surely Quicktime should be preventing that?
Didn't use to happen on Quicktime 6 I'm pretty sure.
Can't think of a solution, but a possible workaround is to enable a 'hot corner' to be 'disable screen saver' in the screensaver prefs then shove the mouse up there once you've started the film.
HaxRuS
Ian McCall ian@redacted.invalid wrote:
It did here. I just had to remember to do a sys pref energy save display sleep never before any serious DVD watching.
Hmm, that's interesting in itself. I watch films on the Mac every single night
On DVD?
Watching DVDs, the screen doesn't dim.
On 2005-05-06 20:57:27 +0100, peter@redacted.invalid (Peter Ceresole) said:
Ian McCall ian@redacted.invalid wrote:
It did here. I just had to remember to do a sys pref energy save display sleep never before any serious DVD watching.
Hmm, that's interesting in itself. I watch films on the Mac every single night
On DVD?
Watching DVDs, the screen doesn't dim.
No - DivX AVI or mp4 mostly, depending on whether I ripped it from DVD with Handbrake (mp4) or offloaded it from the Tivo and put it through ffmpegx (Divx AVI). I store quite a lot of films on the hard drive for streaming to an eyeHome downstairs.
Seems that I'm mistaken though, since others are reporting it for Quicktime 6 too. Looks like another bug report to Apple. I'm really racking them up these days.
Cheers, Ian
On 6/5/05 8:55 pm, in article 8nin711rts4ps1o63oepot39eu48kk3728@redacted.invalid, "Tim Auton" tim.auton@redacted.invalid wrote:
Ian McCall ian@redacted.invalid wrote:
Couple of times now, I've been watching a film and around fifteen or so minutes in to it the display switches off. It seems the display preferences are kicking in, but surely Quicktime should be preventing that?
Didn't use to happen on Quicktime 6 I'm pretty sure.
Can't think of a solution, but a possible workaround is to enable a 'hot corner' to be 'disable screen saver' in the screensaver prefs then shove the mouse up there once you've started the film.
I tried that; it only affects the screen saver. The energy saver still kicks in.
Steve root@redacted.invalid wrote:
On 6/5/05 8:55 pm, in article 8nin711rts4ps1o63oepot39eu48kk3728@redacted.invalid, "Tim Auton" tim.auton@redacted.invalid wrote: [pnrep]
Can't think of a solution, but a possible workaround is to enable a 'hot corner' to be 'disable screen saver' in the screensaver prefs then shove the mouse up there once you've started the film.
I tried that; it only affects the screen saver. The energy saver still kicks in.
Those tree-hugging Californian hippy bitches, they spoil all our fun.
Tim