MediaElement seems to disable lock screen when playing a video

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Published on 2012-06-27T15:01:53Z Indexed on 2012/06/28 9:16 UTC
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I am working on an application that plays a video using the MediaElement component. Now, I would like that if the user is idle, the lock screen appears, as configured by the user in the Settings of the device.

If I don't play a video, the lock screen indeed appears. But, when a video is playing no lock screen appears. I cannot find any information on this.

Currently I set the idle detection modes like this:

PhoneApplicationService.Current.ApplicationIdleDetectionMode = IdleDetectionMode.Enabled;
PhoneApplicationService.Current.UserIdleDetectionMode = IdleDetectionMode.Enabled;

I am a bit lost now. The only solution I can think of is running a timer myself and stop the video playback after a certain time. (but there seems to be no API calls to receive the configured lock timeout.)

Any suggestions are welcome, thanks.

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