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Settings reset with every start

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 14:07
by OrpheusK
Hi, I want the VLC player to remember certain settings: most importantly, the player should close after a video has played. So I tick the appropriate menu item, but with the next start, the player behaves as before. How can I configure the program so that it ALWAYS closes down immediately after a video?

Re: Settings reset with every start

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 15:05
by thannoy
If you use Windows and if you know basics of the registry / file associations, then you can modify media file associations to append "vlc://quit" to vlc call. Everytime you launch VLC from Explorer, it will close at the end of the video.

I don't know how the original command value looks like, but result may looks like this:

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"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --start-from-file "%1" "vlc://quit"
or

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"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --start-from-file %l "vlc://quit"

Much simpler solution may exists..