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Hello there,

I need to pass command line options to vlc through Windows scheduler.
Command line length is limited to 261 characters when using Windows scheduler This is something easily reachable when you include a dirctory/file destination under windows.
Is there a way to specify VLC a filename to get options from ?

thanks in advance.

Batch simple text files (*.bat, *.cmd)? Create one and put all your command line in there. Then you can schedule to run the command file.

.bat is indeed a generic solution. In my case, I finally discovered the XML format that which is an even better solution I can use with the schtasks vista/windows7 command.

thanks for the help though.