screen goes black while watching videos despite settings

Asked Jan 13 '18 at 04:48

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ok so i'm running xenial with unity on my chromebook via crouton and the chromeos power setting is set to never go dark, and the power settings in the ubuntu are set to never go dark, but after a couple minutes of video (netflix in google-chrome) the screen goes dark. why is this? how do i stop it?

asked Jan 13 '18 at 04:48

user599353

Does the "couple minutes" correspond to when the screen saver would trigger? If so try disabling the screen saver. – J. Starnes Jan 13 '18 at 04:54
there is no screensaver installed in ubuntu – user599353 Jan 13 '18 at 18:39
Could be power saving is enabled. What does the command xset -q | awk '/DPMS is/ {print $NF}' return? – Terrance Jan 14 '18 at 06:45
i ran the command and it didnt return anything at all – user599353 Jan 14 '18 at 15:21
Could you try to install ffmpeg by running this command line apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg ? – Benjamin Gauthier May 16 '18 at 08:17

screen goes black while watching videos despite settings

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