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Hi, I'm working on a project using Raspberry pi 4 with two HDMI and VLC ruand I was wondering if there is a way to run VLC with an identifier so that I can kill a VLC process leaving the other running?
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do some basic linux process management

do some basic linux process management

I know how to kill the process manually and individually using Pid, the problem is I launch and kill VLC on each tv via PHP and web interface and the Pid process changes id constantly unless there is a way to assign a static Pid id to a VLC process, now that would be great since I'll know which process to kill.
Let me do some digging around to see if I can assign a Pid id to a process.
and thanks for your response.

How do you launch VLC using PHP exactly? You process spawning API should give you the pid of the spawned process so you can track and kill it.