Aha! Yes yes yes -- that's it! Exactly what I was looking for. In my defense, I did a search through the help file and don't see that referenced anywhere.
So, if VLC doesn't appear in the task manager, and was uninstalled... are you SURE it's VLC? Here's my guess: You have a TV tuner card, or something similar, which delivers audio via your sound card's line-in jack. Maybe VLC setup the mixer to enable line-in playback. Go into the mixer and mute thin...
I'm asking this questions in a new thread as the thread it was in seems to have died. I'm trying to setup a sort of video jukebox, where the PC will randomly play all files in a folder at system startup. With 0.85, I could use, basically, "vlc.exe -Z --loop -f c:\vids\*.*" and it'd play th...
Similar problem: I'm trying to setup a sort of video jukebox, where the PC will randomly play all files in a folder at system startup. With 0.85, I could use, basically, "vlc.exe -Z --loop -f c:\vids\*.*" and it'd play the files just fine. But with 0.86, it no longer likes the *.* part, an...