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1 - Can VLC be run as a Windows Process... or whatever...
... so that the VLC Window is not open and not viewable by the user?
... that is... VLC is playing videos (or streaming) in the background but without a VLC window being open?

2 - If so, how would we launch this from a batch file or via the Windows Command Line?

Thanks for any help.

http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... Use_of_VLC
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... mat_String

If you want VLC without GUI, then and if you don't want decorations to video window, then --no-video-deco

so e.g.

Thanks guys!