[macvoiceover] Re: machine went in to sleep mode while listening to a stream
- From: "Marty Rimpau" <mrimpau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:31:33 -0800
Hi Travis, I was using vlc player, and this has never happened with
that program before, but when the zona 98 stream cut off, I vo right
arrowed in the vlc window, and I heard the cd player rev up the way it
does when the machine wakes up, and that's how I knew the computer had
awakened, and I got done listening to another program for well over 2
hours, and this didn't happen, so maybe this was just a flook.
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:02:59 -0600, Travis Siegel wrote:
What program were you using to listen to the stream?
If the computer sees no activity for a certain amount of time
(configurable in system prefs) it will indeed go to sleep. If the
program's author doesn't let the system know that something is
happening, then the computer has no way to know you're listening to a
stream.
For example.
The softcon dvd player used to go to sleep when you were watching
dvds, because there was (according to the system) any user activity.
I had to add a keep-alive timer, as it were, to let the system know
the program was actually doing something. Now, the screen no longer
blanks when your time out limit has been reached.
Until I got that one fixed, it was quite irritating, you had to either
hit the shift key occasionally, or you had to keep something open in
the background that kept the system awake.
It's probably the same thing here. Likely, the program's author(s)
didn't include keep-awake code in the program, and so it goes to
sleep, because it doesn't see any activity from the keyboard.
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