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Posted: **26 Aug 2008 15:47**

Hey Everyone,

In VLC (Specificly I'm running under Ubuntu), is there a way to make VLC always reuse the current instance rather than popping up a new video window each time a new media is double-clicked? I know Windows VLC can do it, but I'm not sure if Linux can.

Posted: **26 Aug 2008 17:24**

I will be possible with vlc 0.9

Posted: **27 Aug 2008 05:46**

Meanwhile, you can use a little bash script to close previous vlc instance before launching new one:

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#! /bin/bash
killall vlc 
vlc "$1" &

(edit: corrected typo)

Posted: **28 Aug 2008 13:27**

Killing VLC isn't really the same as adding the item to an existing VLC's playlist

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