There are couple of ways (i can think of) that may be of help:
- Your code can "tickle" the player over ECP every so often to keep it awake
- You can include screensaver functionality in your channel, that takes precedence over the system-wide SS. Unfortunately this will be harder, since the documentation on how to do that is not available right this moment. But it has been long coming (for years) and for a while this week it was even visible.
What RokuJoel said applies, take care not to burn-in screen.
The jerk you observed is interesting - but even more interesting is when you say on 3rd request "Roku crashes and I have to restart the device". Since you say have to manually reboot Roku, it does not seem like system crash but rather error handled by BRSr. Do you see something interesting in debug console?
