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Sorry to insist in this old topic... I have seen that a shutdown mechanism is still missing from VLC. It has been requested multiple times, both here in the forum (this post and others) and in the tracker. The tracker issue 2565 was closed 9 months ago, but the functionality is not implemented, sinc...

I agree that this feature would increase the usability of the player. I don't agree this is a security risk; if a user is allowed to shut down a machine, then any of the programs he runs is also allowed. The security risk would be VLC allowing any user to shut down the machine, regardless his own pe...

Hi all, It is obvious that a user program shouldn't generate a BSOD!! The BSOD says on most cases that it has found an invalid operation, concretely a STOP instruction. Sometimes, however, there is a problem with an IRQ, which I do not remember right now. It seems that Athlon processors are not 100%...

Hi all, I have the same problem. My computer has an Athlon processor (1.2GHz), WinXP and a Geforce2 MX, all of them with the latest available drivers. It suffers from BSODs, specially when full screen is enabled, and after a while (a few minutes, but it is quite random). Obviously, a program shouldn...