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<blockquote data-quote="patricon" data-source="post: 177682" data-attributes="member: 52492">This is a bug in MP that does not free video resources when screensaver is launched, to verify this issue, you can do the following: add your favourite screensaver to the My programs plugin, and launch it (you can make a shourtcut to the .scr file) as a normal app. You'll see that this way the screensaver works fine... but when the screensaver is fired by windows, it doesn't work... This has been discussed here: <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mp_hangs_coming_back_screensaver-t26323.html?t=26323&amp;highlight=screensaver" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mp_hangs_coming_back_screensaver-t26323.html?t=26323&amp;highlight=screensaver</a>... but it seems thet it doesn't bother to mp devs.For devs, it could be two possible solutions:1) Fix the bug when launching external app outside mp (may be releasing the resources when mp loses focus)2) Handle the screensaver from MP. This could be easy just adding a new combo box in configurator to select the .scr file to be launched after N seconds or minutes. That way, mp could disable the windows screensaver at startup and manage its own...regards,</blockquote>

[QUOTE="patricon, post: 177682, member: 52492"] This is a bug in MP that does not free video resources when screensaver is launched, to verify this issue, you can do the following: add your favourite screensaver to the My programs plugin, and launch it (you can make a shourtcut to the .scr file) as a normal app. You'll see that this way the screensaver works fine... but when the screensaver is fired by windows, it doesn't work... This has been discussed here: [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mp_hangs_coming_back_screensaver-t26323.html?t=26323&highlight=screensaver[/url] ... but it seems thet it doesn't bother to mp devs. For devs, it could be two possible solutions: 1) Fix the bug when launching external app outside mp (may be releasing the resources when mp loses focus) 2) Handle the screensaver from MP. This could be easy just adding a new combo box in configurator to select the .scr file to be launched after N seconds or minutes. That way, mp could disable the windows screensaver at startup and manage its own... regards, [/QUOTE]

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