Media Player Classic - prevent monitor power down?!

I'm using Media Player Classic, and previously I'm sure it used to prevent my screen from turning off and going into power saving mode.

I've just upgraded to Vista x64 and now it doesnt - my screen turns off after 15mins of watching something.
I don't want to disable this fully - everything else copes with it fine - and i dont want to ditch MPC!

Can someone please help!?

 

erm, have you tryed the disply options in vista?
MPC has nothing to do with power options.

 

Media Player Classic in Vista!?!?! I think you got those crack or "fake" (their developer own style of player) player.

Ok,
1- If you use the real thing, Windows Media Player 11 32 or 64-bit (set as 32-bit as default, but you can change to run the 64-bit instead, which is way better as you can run 64-bit codecs (which are all out now))
2- By default Windows Media Player 11 (32 and 64 -bit) has the option set that the screen saver doesn't start when your playing a video. However, here is how to toggle it, (maybe something changed it): Go to the Option of Windows Media Player 11, go to the "player" tab, and you see a check box (2nd one at the sub section called "Player Settings"), that has the name of "Allow screen saver during playback", and check the settings.

If that still doesn't help, then its a problem with the codec that you use.
I suggest to uninstall it, and use this one:
http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=573&Itemid=72
(Remember, to allow you to use these codecs you must use Windows Media Player 11 64-bit. This codec pack has a utility to change the default player form 32 to 64-bit)

 

You're missing the point. I WANT my monitor to turn off after 15mins, just not when i'm doing things!

Media Player Classic is a program that been around for donkeys from the days when people got fed up of the bloatedness of normal WMP. I figured there'd be a few peeps around here who used it... You can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
I dont have the problem in normal WMP, however i really cant stand it! I'll use VLC if i have to, but i've been using MPC for years and really like it!

 

Media Player Classic is used by many people, myself included, take 5 minutes on google to understand the benefits.

Sorry to the OP I'm still using XP so can't answer your question.

 

I KNOW what it is! But Media player classic is not avail in Vista, it could be a compatibility or simple bug issue.
Beside their is no 64-bit support.

 

VLC was failing to prevent the powersaver from turning on for me in vista a while ago. then windows update found an update for my monitor and it started working. i hadn't installed any drivers with my monitor, so i guess the update was a driver that windows needed to deal with the power settings. try installing any drivers that came with your monitor and see if that helps.

 

Although Windows Media Player 6.4 was installed by default with XP, MPC is also available as a standalone download which can be installed on Vista.

 

Just tried that but unfortunately there dont seem to be any vista drivers for my monitor. Pointed the driver update to the folder with them in for xp and it just ignored them and said that the best drivers were the generic plug and play ones

 

Right click on desktop, Click "Personalise"
Select "screen Saver"
In the screen saver menu click on "change power settings"
Then in the Power options window click "choose when to turn off the display"

In that menu you can choose when the display to go into sleep mode.

As for MPC on Vista 64bit, It works perfectly and has no issues.

 

As i said above:

And yes, MPC has no problems on Vista x64, apart from this which is driving me absolutely nuts!

 

vaderag,
Don't worry, the old "crack or fake" bull seems to be one of GoodBytes' standard replies, I've had the same treatment from him/her.

I use MPC and it's perfectly stable on Vista x64. So that's MPC 2 : 0 GoodBytes.

Sorry I can't help with the monitor.

 

Well... i seem to have established something. It's not MPC. It works fine when watching an xvid. It just doesnt when i'm watching an MKV.
I'm using the Core AVC codec...
Anyone able to help?

 

Which version of MPC are you running?

From what I'm able to find out "MPC: Disable monitor powersaving during playback on Windows Vista" was added in release 6.4.9.1

And off-topic: GoodBytes please drag your behind out of the nineties and get with the beat. In the early days Windows Media Player "Classic" was a Microsoft release that was included with Win98, ME etc. but Media Player Classic is a separate project that indeed looks like WMP6 but that's also where the resemblance ends. Naturally this causes some confusion. But MPC as it's also known has nothing to do with Microsoft. MPC includes codecs to play almost anything and the GUI simplicity (rip-off) was a sort of counter-movement to MS new moves with the GUI of their WMP.
Go try it out and discover what a kick-ass piece of software it is. Up until VLC came along there was "nothing like it".
I reckon the name Classic comes from the fact that this is the look of the player as we know all the way back to win95.

Edit: wow I write to slow

 

If it's happening when you're playing something using the CoreAVC then see if it still turns off the monitor when playing it through WMP.
It still sounds to me like a MPC issue.

 

You need to unable screen saver in the configuration panel, as mentioned by atanum141.
When you move your mouse or type things on the keyboard Windows won't start the screen.
Another solution would be making a program with a button, when you press on it it disable the screen saver, and when you press it again it re-unable it. You can also set a keyboard key to toggle that option, specially if you have configurable media keys on your keyboard (as you can just link it to launch the program)

Another solution, is set one of media keyboard button, or have a shortcut icon on your desktop, start menu, that runs a screensaver. So when you re done with work just run it.

If you use an LCD screen savers are useless, as image burn in can't occur.

When I say something, it is because I know and saw it from personally experience. You have no clue what stupidity I saw in my life experience.
I know a persion copying explorer.exe from WinXP and paste it in Vista 32-bit as he thought that program gets launch by explorer.exe, so he wanted to fix a problem (that doesn't really exists for our perspective but ok) of the siftware compatibility. Yea, hard to believe myself. And this was not done by average users, however by computer "enthusiasts". As for average users, I saw 2 different people purchased a computer, and they started to find ways to delete everything in drive C (as they read somewhere on the internet that they are useless utilities and software put on their computer by computer assembler company (HP, Dell, Acer, etc..). So you can imagine what occurred on reboot, specially that they found a way to go in safe mode and do it (if you are curios, Windows worked as you can can't just delete it's file, but let's say there was many error message of missing files) And they go: "But I never installed that stuff, they said that thy recommend to delete them" And I can go on...
So now I just plain don't know. Specially that "yodasarmpit" did not specify anything other then WMP Classic in Vista.

Back to what I said after when I realized it was the actual software, I suggested to use Windows Media Player 11 64-bit (or if you have any other 64-bit player), instead of the 32-bit application. First of all, you will see if the screen saver saver works as it should (To eliminate the possibility of a software bug, as I know in WMP11 works, you know for debugging), On your way you get also you will enjoy your 64-bit CPU at work. Depending on the codec, you can see that 64-bit codec uses less system resources over the 32-bit, which is interesting.
Also I asked to change codec pack, I know and I tried several codec packs and their was one of them that wanted to take control of the screen saver however had a bug in Vista where the screen saver always started during playback.

 

when you don't know, don't post. as yoda's armpit said, this thread is not about windows media player classic. it is about an open source project called media player classic that attempts to clone the look and feel of the old windows media player. suggesting wmp11 is not a solution, the op is not looking for an alternative, he is looking for a way to fix an issue with MPC. telling him he doesn't need a screensaver, or to use a shortcut to turn on his screensaver is also not a solution.

 

Don't change the context when you quote me!

Also I did mentioned for testing, meaning debugging, to know if it is the program or codecs, or something else. It is to try to isolate the problem. So far our dear friend was looking for monitor drivers, what if it has nothing to do with his monitor drivers? He is going to buy a new monitor to fix it?! which could end up not being the solution at all.

I'll keep a note of that next time you ask advice about anything especially for hardware. However, don't come and crying after.

So what do you (supertoad) propose, if you just say all my suggestions to be "not a solution"? See it is perfectly fine saying to some one that their solution is not best, or simply not a solution, but you must present something better.
Here is an example,
Persion1: "What do you suggest for a PSU?"
Persion2: "I suggest the flowing:...."
Persion3: "It sucks!"
Hmmm.... something is missing, on the post of person 3, don't you think?

 

sorry, my bad. i skimmed over that bit. i thought you were suggesting he abandon MPC and just start using WMP because it was 64-bit. (i still don't see what 64/32 has to do with anything in the context of this thread.)

you've seen my suggestion. i suggested monitor drivers, because that has worked for me in the past in a similar situation. as that is the limit of my experience, i will not suggest anything else. however, i do believe your analogy was flawed. this is more realistic:
person1: my powersupply fan won't turn on
person2: get a new powersupply
person3: that doesn't fix the problem.

 

Woah! What have I started?!?! lol

That did the job mate Wierd thing is, that's not available from the 'official' source, as it seems its a tweaked version that's done alongside! Either way, works a treat

Thanks!