Prevent VLC from playing the next item in playlist

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Prevent VLC from playing the next item in playlist

Postby evero » 23 Oct 2008 18:09

Hello,
Does anyone know a way to prevent VLC from automatically playing the next item in the playlist?
I know this defeats the main purpose of having a playlist but I need this functionality because I play the videoclips one by one (and it looks very unproffesional when the next videoclip starts in my situation).
Thanks

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Re: Prevent VLC from playing the next item in playlist

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Oct 2008 04:57

add vlc://pause to your playlist between the clips.
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Re: Prevent VLC from playing the next item in playlist

Postby evero » 25 Oct 2008 14:10

Sorry, but I don't seem to figure out how to add it to the playlist (when it's not a file). Could you describe in detail?
Thanks again!

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Re: Prevent VLC from playing the next item in playlist

Postby kdean » 25 Oct 2008 16:37

Playlist preferences has a checkbox for "Play and stop". The tooltip says "Stop the playlist after each played playlist item."

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Re: Prevent VLC from playing the next item in playlist

Postby evero » 25 Oct 2008 17:08

Perfect :)
In the options dialogue I had to tick the "show all" settings to reaveal the playlist options (it was set to simple as default). After setting this, and restarting VLC it works perfect.
so thanks again!


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