Bug 339427

Summary: Screen goes off when watching video using VLC
Product: [Plasma] Powerdevil Reporter: Sudhir Khanger <sudhir>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Development Mailing List <plasma-devel>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: flying-sheep, kde, lukas, rdieter, rotter.martinos, valeriodean
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.0.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: I can confirm this bug in 5.1.1 Also, the related page in system settings doesn't work no more (see the screenshot).

Description Sudhir Khanger 2014-09-26 13:37:22 UTC
VLC or YouTube full screen video play blocks screen from going off. PowerDevil 5.0.2 doesn't respect VLC's this request. System will turn of the screen as per the power management settings.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Playing anything on VLC or Youtube
2. Wait for screen to go off.(AC 10 minutes, Battery 5 minutes and low battery 2 minutes)
3.

Actual Results:  
Screen goes off even when VLC or Youtube is playing video.

Expected Results:  
Screen should not go off when VLC or YouTube is playing video.

$ rpm -qa | grep powerdevil
powerdevil-5.0.2-1.fc20.x86_64
$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.16.3-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 17 22:34:21 UTC 2014 x86_64
Comment 1 Valerio De Angelis 2014-11-09 22:51:20 UTC
Created attachment 89516 [details]
I can confirm this bug in 5.1.1 Also, the related page in system settings doesn't work no more (see the screenshot).
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2014-12-16 20:55:25 UTC
I cannot recall YouTube actually inhibiting power management but I cannot reproduce this issue with VLC. When I watch a VLC video, the screen stays on and does not dim. Can you reproduce with a more recent PowerDevil version?

@Valerio: That is a separate bug, perhaps PowerDevil is not running and thus does not override a potential systemd automatism.
Comment 3 Sudhir Khanger 2015-01-29 14:38:50 UTC
Not able to reproduce with
Comment 4 Sudhir Khanger 2015-01-29 14:39:20 UTC
No longer able to reproduce it on powerdevil 5.2