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Posted: **05 May 2008 12:07**

VLC Shutdown 0.1alpha

As far as I am able to tell there is no simple solution to automatically shut down your computer after VLC has stopped playing.

That's why I created this simple AutoIT script to check the status bar of the main VLC window and start a 20 second shutdown-timer once playback has ended. I plan to add additional features like hibernation, standby, a timer (for streams) etc. as soon as I find the time.

In the meantime, grab the sourcecode and the executable here and tell me what you think.

Comments, improvements, suggestions (and bug reports

) are of course very welcome.

~Wave

Posted: **11 Mar 2009 15:49**

The shutdown problem seems to be something that is everlasting... well evan lim devised a shutdown script in autohotkey that allows vlc to shutdown after 15 min of inactivity and then enter sleep mode on the monitor. i've tweaked the script a little to get it to work for my personal system and to avoid coding a title reader for vlc

I will not put up a compiled copy since ahk has the false positive situation. To compile this install ahk, right click on desktop make new ahk file, copy paste code below, create a batchfile C:\myprograms\monitorsleep\sleepzor.bat make sure all of the folders are exactly how they should be named. A possible update might be in order depending on my own lazyness haha hope this helps out

* updated script

ahk code All credit goes to Evan Lim

Code: Select all

#Persistent
settimer, check, 60000
check:
if (A_Hour >= 4) and (A_hour <= 5)
{
SendMessage, 0x112, 0xF170, 1,, Program Manager
}
; function will only works within 2-5am
if (A_Hour >= 2) and (A_hour <= 3)
{
; if no interaction with computer for more than 15 mins 900000 20 min 1200000
if A_TimeIdlePhysical > 2100000
{
MsgBox, 0, This MsgBox will time out in 10 seconds, Press OK to prevent screen turning off., 10
 IfMsgBox OK
    return
Run, sleepzor.bat, C:\myprograms\monitorsleep
sleep, 50000

SendMessage, 0x112, 0xF170, 1,, Program Manager 

settimer, check, off
settimer, check2, 120000
}
}
return

check2:
if A_TimeIdlePhysical < 60000
{
settimer, check, 60000
settimer, check2, off
}
return

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