Re: vlc pausing itself after computer goes to sleep.

2014-06-05 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sounds like the VLC folks need to call UpdateSystemActivity to keep the machine from thinking that there is nothing going on: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1160/_index.html That said, there are apps to prevent a machine from going to sleep so you could use one of them when you h

Re: vlc pausing itself after computer goes to sleep.

2014-06-05 Thread isaac
There is a setting in energy saver that says prevent computer from sleeping when the display is off. I am not sure if that would solve the problem that you are having with VLC or not. isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com Skype gold_wildcat On Jun 5, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Jessica Moss wrote: > Ok, that's

Re: vlc pausing itself after computer goes to sleep.

2014-06-05 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, that's just it, I don't want it to do that, considering the fact that it's going to be more of an energy hog when I'm not using it, so figured if there were a way to prevent having to do that and let vlc run in the background when it was still in sleep mode, that would be great. Itunes does

Re: vlc pausing itself after computer goes to sleep.

2014-06-05 Thread isaac
To stop you're computer from going in to sleep. First go to system preferences. Next go to energy saver. Next tab to the slider and then to make the computer stay awake longer move the slider to the right. isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com Skype gold_wildcat On Jun 5, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Jessica

vlc pausing itself after computer goes to sleep.

2014-06-05 Thread Jessica Moss
I've noticed lately that when I have vlc running, it does this annoying thing where it loves to pause about 10 minuttes or so after my computer goes to sleep, which is really ffrustrating, because I have to constantly stop what I'm doing to wake my computer up and unpause it. Does anyone know a