Movie disappears after screen saver kicks in

If my screen saver (it doesn't matter which one) kicks in while watching a movie, after I press a key to stop the screen saver, Quicktime still plays the movie but there's nothing on the screen, all I see is my background. I can hear the sound, but no picture. Anyone have a fix for this problem besides turning off the screen saving while watching movies?

If I play a movie with VLC or QT the display will NOT go to sleep...
Are you sure about that? Because that's not what happens on my machine forcing me to run a little utility (Jiggler) to keep my machine awake (to avoid having to change the energy saver prefs each time).
FWIW, there are alternatives to Jiggler (Caffeine and InsomniaX are two others). Perhaps you might consider one of these when using Front Row.
Note, it is possible my specific problem has to do with using multiple displays, where one of those displays is my TV when using vlc.

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