I have an AVR at home that I usually use to play movies. Occasionally, I hook up my computer over HDMI to only play music with elisa. To conserve energy, I have dimming and turning off the screen set to five minutes f inactivity. While listenting to music with Elisa, when the screen dims and turns off, the sound stops playing. It might be a bug in the AVR, actually, but that is unfixable. A setting that would keep the screen off while playing music (as video players do) would be great. A workaround: turn off turning of screen system-wide.
This happens because HDMI transports audio as well as video. When the screen turns off, its built-in speakers turn off too (or it stops passing audio through to the speakers, if you have it set up that way). There are two ways you can fix this: 1. Somehow make your TV only turn of the screen, but keep its audio hardware alive 2. Send the audio from the computer to the speakers without involving the TV at all
You have in mind a different setup. My setup is Computer - AVR - projector | speakers So it would seem that projector could turn off without the speakers being turned off. The AVR is happy to play sound without any screen connected to it, just over HDMI it won't it seems.
So you're saying when the projector turns off, the AVR turns off the speakers? That does seem like a bug in the AVR, yeah. What exactly are you requesting Elisa do to fix this?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) > So you're saying when the projector turns off, the AVR turns off the > speakers? That does seem like a bug in the AVR, yeah. Well, according to this comment: https://superuser.com/questions/160361/how-do-i-keep-the-audio-playing-over-an-hdmi-cable-while-the-connected-display-i > Actually, this is not a Windows issue. This is part of the HDMI v1.3+ specifications. In short, HDMI is trying to be smart in thinking that if you turned off the TV, that you must not want to get the audio stream as well. Sometimes intelligent design is less than intelligent. This is by design of HDMI, no problem with my AVR. If you google somethinng like "no audio AVR screen off HDMI" you will get plenty of people struggling with this on all OSes. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) > What exactly are you requesting Elisa do to fix this? Well, what I wrote in the initial post: "A setting that would keep the screen off while playing music (as video players do) would be great." (a bonus would be to only prevent turning the screen off if audio is played over HDMI). It might be a workaround of a buggy HDMI specification, but that is not going anywhere.
> setting that would keep the screen off while playing music (as video players do) would be great. Do you mean a setting that would *prevent* the screen from turning off while playing music?
Yešs, exactly, that.
Elisa already automatically inhibits sleep and screen locking while playing music. I guess it doesn't inhibit screen turn-off though, and maybe it should, either always or optionally.