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Hello everybody,

I need to run vlc (0.8.5) in command line with an url argument.
Vlc works, but it never quits. I am obliged to kill it by a ^C.

Is there an another manner, without any interface, to do that properly ?

Thanks in advance

Philippe

Add vlc:quit after your last playlist item / at the end of your command-line and VLC quit after playing all items.

Add vlc:quit after your last playlist item / at the end of your command-line and VLC quit after playing all items.

Thanks a lot for your prompt answer, that's work !

An other stupid question :
how to suppress diagnostic messages ?
I have not seen any --quiet or --silent options

Thanks again

Philippe

--quiet should work.

--quiet should work.

Thanks, I'll try !

But what is the relation with --verbose 0 ?

Philippe

verbose 0 still prints some stuff (debug from libs used by VLC for example). --quiet will only print 1 line ("VLC media player <vesion string>")

Is there a way to time the quit command? In most of the streams I want to record, they just go on 24-7 and I only want 1-3 hours or so.

As of 2.1.6 version of VLC the playlist magic option syntax is and for the situation

Is there a way to time the quit command? In most of the streams I want to record, they just go on 24-7 and I only want 1-3 hours or so.

there is another one -- will pause for 3 seconds( or other number you give).

Hope it helps.