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Is there a way to tell if VLC ran successfully or failed when playing a video/audio file, for example a *.mkv file

I am performing a test using powershell here is a line of code

start-process "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "\\$global:uutName\Documents\MKV.mkv"

this line runs successfully and the video plays but is there a way to prove/show that it ran successfully or failed

thanks in advance

Probably not. How do you define success anyway?...

i guess if there are no errors, error file

is ther some kind of output log file if there is a failure?

i tried to play a file that wasn't there and got this in an error dialog

File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "\\STG-53\Documents\ACC.AAC". (%m)
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file://STG-53/Documents/ACC.AAC'. Check the log for details.

it says there is a log file but i can't find one

add --file-logging it will create a vlc.log

thanks that works fine, the final command in a batch file looks like this

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "\\UUT\Documents\MKV.mkav" "--file-logging"

vlc-log.txt appears in the c:\ folder

the word "error" apears in the log file if the playback fails or the file does not exist

That error means the file could not be opened for reading. You don't need to start VLC to check that.

It won't be so easy if the file is readable but corrupted.