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G'day

I use the dummy interface with the --dummy-quiet argument to connect to a network streamed web cam to allow our receptionists and others to monitor the front desk without being out there.

Is there a way to kill the VLC process once the viewport's been closed. If someone does close the window, they can't run VLC again unless I go to their computer and manually terminate the process.

Anyone have any ideas?

I think its rather bugged.. I cant even kill VLC.exe process.. AT ALL in winxp.

If i open VLC, open "anything at all", and then close VLC, the process is still there, and will make next vlc window to hang no matter what i try. Trying to kill the vlc.exe process via taskmanager, have no result. Only way to get rid of vlc process is to do a hard reboot (as i cant even shutdown the computer, cos it will hang when trying to kill vlc.exe)

So.. why cant i kill the process?

I think its rather bugged.. I cant even kill VLC.exe process.. AT ALL in winxp.

If i open VLC, open "anything at all", and then close VLC, the process is still there, and will make next vlc window to hang no matter what i try. Trying to kill the vlc.exe process via taskmanager, have no result. Only way to get rid of vlc process is to do a hard reboot (as i cant even shutdown the computer, cos it will hang when trying to kill vlc.exe)

So.. why cant i kill the process?

Seems I have had this problem, I had installed VLC's Windows Service interface. You might look both within the player under Preferences, Control Interfaces, NT service and check the box marked uninstall windows service. As I recall VLC does not keep track of this so the box marked install windows service may not be checked. Another way to know if this is the problem (before you change VLC) is to go to your Control Panel, Administrative Tools and select Services then look for VLC. By right clicking on the object you can change the automatic to manual or disable the module. A reboot will be necessary to clear this no matter which method you choose. I think! I may not have tried all the options, but a reboot won't hurt.

I posted a thread ages ago about running VLC as a service and nobody answered.
I might have a bit more of a play around with the idea.