VLC screen locks up strangely

[kline]

I was watching a video withh vlc and after 30 minutes the screen blanked and in the center on the screen was a popup that said i had to type in my passwd too continue. the audio and the movie itself continued as i grabbed my mouse. the thing is, the instant i touched my mouse, the blank screen disappeared and everything else was all right. [ this happened every 30 minutes throughout the movie.

is this a system bug in kde? i have checked vlc that i don't remember touching: found nothing obvious. So: thoughts, guys?

TIA, for any suggestions.

[verndog]

It would happen on any program that was running and no input, either keyboard or mouse. I'm unsure of fix other than turning off screenlock and/or screensaver

[Rog132]

VLC+KDE+Screensaver/locker

Few picks:

- http://askubuntu.com/questions/10249...ies-in-kubuntu
- http://askubuntu.com/questions/19393...04-lts-and-vlc
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1324101
...
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292917

The last comment is:

Oliver Henshaw 2013-03-08 17:49:40 UTC
As mentioned in http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4739#comment:33

* vlc 2.0 and earlier mostly worked with 4.9 and earlier but it only worked as well it did by accident.
* The upcoming vlc 2.1 should work perfectly with kde 4.10

xdg-screensaver again is quite fragile and worked as well as it used to by accident. It's been even more unreliable for gnome for even longer I believe.

This bug is variously INVALID, WONTFIX and FIXED. But we've already fixed a few quirks on the kde side for 4.10.0 and just need vlc 2.1 to be released to (hopefully) settle this.

In the meantime you could untick "Enable power management" in the battery applet while you're watching the movie.

The standard VLC with the Raring seems to be:

:~$ vlc --version
VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower (revision 2.0.8a-0-g68cf50b)
VLC version 2.0.8 Twoflower (2.0.8a-0-g68cf50b)
Compiled by buildd on panlong.buildd (Aug 2 2013 01:37:47)
Compiler: gcc version 4.7.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1)
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by the VideoLAN team; see the AUTHORS file.

How can i get the latest vlc...: http://askubuntu.com/questions/35034...nload-page-and

[Rog132]

I have not tried but there is the KaffeineTY: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=159860

Description:
KaffeineTY

KaffeineTY - a application to temporarity prevents dim screen action of power management and screensaver for KDE environment.

CONFIGURE IT
go to: System settings > Power Management > KaffeineTY
enter name of application you want to run it without dim screen and screensaver action in 'Parameter'
syntax: name1{titleoptional1}|name2{titleoptional2}|....
By default, it enable for flash run in fullscreen model on chromium and firefox browser by: chromium{exe}|plugin-container