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Posted: **17 Aug 2006 00:09**

I'm running VLC on SUSE through the command line, and I like to quit VLC after the file I'm running is done. I've been able to use vlc:quit in the playlist to close out of VLC, so I thought that I'd be able to use it in a VLM schedule to quit when it was done. I'm getting an error though when I try to do that:

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dummy demuxer error: we are not attached to a playlist

Does anyone know another way to quit out of VLC through a VLM schedule?

Posted: **25 Aug 2006 18:03**

use the undocumented "shutdown" command.

Posted: **26 Sep 2006 18:25**

Hi, could someone tell me the correct syntax to use shutdown command in a .vlm file.

I've tried so many...

I'd need something like this:

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new video1 broadcast enabled
setup video1 input "udp://@239.192.1.2:5000"
setup video1 output #std{access=file,mux=ts,dst=e:/videosvlc/segmento1.mpg}
new vid1 schedule date 2006/09/26-15:52:26 enabled
setup vid1 append control video1 play
new vid2 schedule date 2006/09/26-15:53:29 enabled
setup vid2 append shutdown

thanks

Posted: **26 Sep 2006 21:58**

just "shutdown" on its own. If you want to schedule the shutdown, you can try using the schedule stuff in VLM.

Posted: **27 Sep 2006 12:42**

Salut Antoine,
I'm sorry but I'm afraid i don't get you.

Do you mean, for example?

vlc --vlm-conf f.vlm -I dummy

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#f.vlm
shutdown

This does not work to me.

I'm working on a daemon that schedule VLCs to record several MPEG2 TS streams in a multicast TV LAN.

I have tried http interface to close it and it works fine. But it is quite a mess with many vlcs. I have tried also to kill process, it's Ok. But I think it is better just schedule the shutdown at a fix time using vlm files.

Please could you post a dummy post for me using schedule stuff?

I have tried:

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new vid2 schedule date 2006/09/26-15:53:29 enabled 
setup vid2 append shutdown

or

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new vid2 schedule date 2006/09/26-15:53:29 enabled 
setup vid2 append control shutdown

or

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new vid2 schedule date 2006/09/26-15:53:29 enabled 
setup vid2  shutdown

does not work!
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Ubuntu and vlc 0.8.4

Posted: **28 Sep 2006 21:20**

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21:18 dionoea@cellerier ~% telnet localhost 4212
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
Password: 
Welcome, Master
> shutdown
Connection closed by foreign host.
zsh: exit 1     telnet localhost 4212

and on the server:

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21:17 dionoea@cellerier ~/videolan/vlc-svn-clean% ./vlc -I telnet --telnet-host 0.0.0.0:4212
VLC media player 0.9.0-svn Grishenko
[00000316] main interface: creating VLM
[00000316] telnet interface: using the VLM interface plugin...
[00000316] telnet interface: telnet interface started on interface 0.0.0.0 4212
[00000316] telnet interface error: shutdown requested
[00000290] main playlist: saving Media Library to file /home/dionoea/.vlc/ml.xsp
21:18 dionoea@cellerier ~/videolan/vlc-svn-clean%

But maybe that doesn't work in a conf file. (Since it doesn't seem to be a VLM specific command)

Posted: **29 Sep 2006 13:54**

If shutdown were available as a VLM command it would be much easier to build systems that loop on a changing folder of items. Making it work with the scheduler would be even better!

Posted: **11 Dec 2006 22:56**

FYI, I tried the shutdown command in the latest vlm telnet interface and it worked.

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