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Is there a way to disable autoplay of videos in a playlist? There seem to be a bunch of instructions in this forum, but the settings they refer to don't really work. The whole playlist doesn't start automatically when I open it, but the playback goes from one file to the next without breaks. I'd like it to start a video paused, not play it automatically. Any ideas?

See VLC's advanced settings (VLC -> Preferences -> Show All). There is an option to enable a feature called "play and pause" or alternatively "play and stop" if you don't to keep the last video frame displayed.

That is *almost* exactly what I need. Is there a way to have the playback stop (or not start, I guess) on the *first* frame? The play and stop just stops playback. The play and pause, pauses on the last frame. But I want the playback to switch to the next video and hold, while I have a chance to set things up.

Regrettably, no. It would be simple to implement, but we don't have that feature.

Well, it seems that this request (ticket 2936) has been around for a long time. I'll see if I can come up with a patch for it.

Cool! Please do

Just letting you know that the patch has been accepted in git commit dc130ca2b358ed5da3cb783f222eb28cad6aea9f . Hopefully it will make it through to the next release.

Sure, since your patch is in, it will be part of the next major release