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Working on a multimedia database, I want to use VLC as the standard media player to watch video files within the dbase. That works o.k. - except the fact that every time I watched a piece of video the VLC "tool bar" remains on the screen. If a second video-piece is finished the next "VLC tool bar" remains on the screen. That goes on and on - and adds one VLC bar to the last. It would be useful that VLC quits completely having played the file. Or: the one already present VLC tool bar would play the next file without starting VLC another time. What do I have to do?

You could try using the rc interface to control your vlc (to make things short, you feed text commands to a telnet style prompt). See the documentation to see how to enable and use this interface :
http://videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/c ... #id2534244

If you want to close the vlc when it has reached the end of a file, just give it some playlist like :
file://myfile.mp3
vlc:quit