The screeen turns of while FreeTV plays a TV channel.

[van-de-bugger]

FreeTV 1.4 @ LineageOS 20-20241221-NIGHTLY-X00D (Android 13).

I faced an annoying issue related to screen lock. Steps to reproduce:

1. Set "Screen timeout" to 15 s to reproduce the problem faster.
2. Launch FreeTV, start watching any TV channel.
3. Wait ~15 s.
4. Android turns off the screen, FreeTV stops playing: no video, no audio.

Unlock the system. Sometimes FreeTV resumes playback, sometimes it does not and you need to tap the screen to resume. Continue watching TV. Likely after ~15s Android will turn off the screen again.

Note: The issue does not reproduce every time. Sometimes the screen will only turn off once. Changing the screen orientation seems to help reproduce the issue. Sometimes unlocking the system resumes playback, sometimes not.

My actual "Screen timeout" is 5m, not 15s. Even with such an interval, such interruptions are very annoying.

Expected behavior: While playing a FreeTV stream, the screen lock is disabled so the user can watch TV without any interruption.

Okay, disabling the screen lock completely may not be desirable, as the phone will drain the battery if left unattended. During playback, the timeout should be rather big, say 3 or 4 hours, to make it possible to watch a movie or TV show without interruption.

I guess the problem is likely in FreeTV and not in Android system, because I use VLC player to watch downloaded videos, and VLC disables screen lock while playing videos, so I have never encountered screen lock issues in VLC, but with FreeTV it happens often.

[van-de-bugger]

The problem is reproduced with FreeTV 1.5 @ LineageOS 22.2-20251006-NIGHTLY-guamp (Android 15) and FreeTV 1.5 @ LineageOS 23.0-20251012-NIGHTLY-guamp (Android 16).