Samsung OLED 2 minute screensaver timeout is driving me crazy

[jakedata 2]

When I am listening to music with the Emby app, the stupid 2 minute screen timeout switches to their little screensaver and I can't see what's playing until I wake it up again with the remote.

It would be awesome to have a way to make the screen dynamic enough to prevent the anti burn-in from kicking in.

I am sure a visualization would do it or just moving the album art around the screen. This one "feature" makes me regret getting my new TV.

Samsung QN65S90DAFXZA

Version T-PTMDAKUC-1201.8, F03C1910, BT - S

Emby for Samsung 1.9.0

Edited December 7, 2024 by jakedata
messed up Emby version

[Luke 42077]

HI, are you sure that would make a difference? The progress bar should always be moving in the emby ui.

[jakedata 2]

If I switch the input to my computer and leave the screen alone, it dims rather than going to screen saver. Moving the cursor doesn't brighten it up but dragging a window does.

A good test would be to queue up a bunch of short audio files with art to see if having it change in less time than the screen saver interval would keep the screen awake.

I will see if I can test that today.

Edited December 8, 2024 by jakedata

[jakedata 2]

No dice - playing a bunch of short music files with the album art changing every 30s to 1m doesn't prevent the screen from sleeping. The emby app doesn't go to screensaver when I am playing video so the TV must be doing something to decide when it wants to blank the screen. I am happy to do other testing if you can suggest anything.

[SamES 1056]

@Luke, we currently only disable the tizen screensaver during playback if the media type is a video or photo.  Should we be disabling it for music playback as well?

[jakedata 2]

I don't actually want to sear the music playback screen into my OLED. If turning off the Tizen screensaver leaves static screen dimming active then it's probably fine.

One of my favorite little features on the Pandora app for Roku was that it would put the track info and album art into a moving box which was great on my old plasma TV.

Thanks for looking at this

[Luke 42077]

3 hours ago, SamES said:

@Luke, we currently only disable the tizen screensaver during playback if the media type is a video or photo.  Should we be disabling it for music playback as well?

I think we have the right default behavior? But we can certainly add options to control this.

[SamES 1056]

6 hours ago, jakedata said:

I don't actually want to sear the music playback screen into my OLED. If turning off the Tizen screensaver leaves static screen dimming active then it's probably fine.

One of my favorite little features on the Pandora app for Roku was that it would put the track info and album art into a moving box which was great on my old plasma TV.

Thanks for looking at this

Yes, if we disable the screen saver then you will probably have a mostly static image which wouldn't be good for OLED.  The time, slider and possibly the artwork might change but could effectively be the same for the whole album playback.

4 hours ago, Luke said:

I think we have the right default behavior? But we can certainly add options to control this.

I agree that we're probably correct now, but if we added options I think you would want to dim the screen by 50% or add some other form of adjustment

[jakedata 2]

Does disabling the screen saver leave dimming enabled? I am talking about the behavior I see on an unchanging scene like a paused video where the screen gets dimmer until some threshold of motion is reached, as demonstrated when I have the TV displaying my laptop. Dim screen until I grab a window and move it. The cursor alone doesn't seem to brighten it up. As the playlist cover art shifts it would brighten the screen temporarily. 

[SamES 1056]

It would be the same experience as when you watch a movie.  I expect turning off screensaver will also turn off dimming

[jakedata 2]

Oh, that's easy to test. If you turn off the screensaver during video playback then I can test dimming by putting an Emby video on pause for a few minutes.

Stand by...

[jakedata 2]

2 minutes of video on pause and the screensaver started. No dimming, screensaver not disabled. It certainly doesn't screen-save during playback but the TV knows when it isn't playing...

I hit the remote and the screen came back, hit it again and playback resumed.

So, if you care enough to do something about it you might try the bouncy media info screen saver or just write it off as wontfix for the moment.

Thanks for looking.

 

[Jlsmithms 0]

I’m having the same issue. Except with my situation, I’m watching HBO. It’s a regular show. Nothing static on the screen at all. I have no clue as to why it’s doing this. I would understand if there’s a static image but everything on the dang screen is moving. Anyone have a clue as to what’s going on?

[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, Jlsmithms said:

I’m having the same issue. Except with my situation, I’m watching HBO. It’s a regular show. Nothing static on the screen at all. I have no clue as to why it’s doing this. I would understand if there’s a static image but everything on the dang screen is moving. Anyone have a clue as to what’s going on?

Hi, you mean in the hbo app?