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Posted: **17 Mar 2011 11:31**

Should

vlc.exe --play-and-exit video.avi

play the file and exit VLC afterwards?

It doesn't work for me (only tested on windows but it might be a general problem). I tried 1.1.5, and 1.1.8 NB from 2 days ago or something. it plays the file, then Vlc doesn't quit.

Posted: **17 Mar 2011 11:42**

use vlc://quit

Posted: **18 Mar 2011 09:47**

I found out that actually both ways work!

At first your way didn't work either, but I found out why:

In my VLC i changed the default playlist behaviour to play-and-pause (video file stops on the last frame), and this caused VLC to not go to the next playlist item automatically. So if someone else ever has this same problem, the following command-lines should both work.

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vlc.exe --no-play-and-pause --play-and-exit tob.avi

or

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vlc.exe --no-play-and-pause tob.avi vlc://quit

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