How to make windows stop turning the screen off when music plays??

[snowdog]

Hello,


I have TV hooked up to my AV amp to my pc with HDMI.
HDMI carries both audio and video.

I want my screen to turn off/black when not used for 30 minutes. Just to save the screen/less usage/energy/whatevever...

The problem is, when windows turns the ''monitor'' off after 30 minutes of inactivity, audio stops too, because it goes over HDMI, this is very annoying when I use my PC for music ( I do everything via Spotify)...

Is there a way that when windows detects there is audio playing, it will NOT shut down the monitor after ''inactivity'' but otherwise will ?
Or is there a way to just make my tv go into standby, without my AV receiver still playing the music over HDMI ?

 

[Glaucus]

Found this, seems your best bet

On win7 to permanently add "power saving exception" for specific application: start cmd and execute

powercfg -requestsoverride process "[exe path]" DISPLAY SYSTEM

For example:

powercfg -requestsoverride process "C:\Program Files (x86)\DScaler\DScaler.exe" DISPLAY SYSTEM

This seems to permanantly add "exception" - override to system

Or you can download an app like insomnia, but that just stops it sleeping whilst app is running, so you would need to manually close app for it to sleep.

 

[snowdog]

That would stop it sleeping altogether, is there a way to continue audio over hdmi even when no video is outputted, OR stop it from going into standby when music is played?

I mean I can turn the standby itself off easily enough but don't want my screen to be on unnecessarily...

 

[anything I don't mind]

The hdmi is on the graphics card so when the display shuts off it is most likely disabling the display port as well, the hdmi port. The only way around that i can think of is to disable the power off of the display and just manually turn the monitor off, with the power button when you are not using it.

 

[Glaucus]

Oh I see, I can't think of a way to do that
As above its the same port, so turn screen off you lose audio.

Or use a different output for audio.