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when VLC running , how can I stop VLC from command line ?
And How to update bit rate or video size when VLC Video stremmign runing?

Please help me

from a command line typing: vlc -I rc --rc-fake-tty
and sending an "stop /r/n".

But i think this won't work for win32. I have spend about 4 days and 8 hours a day finding a way to stop vlc from command line, but no luck.
Should i be using .Net and leaving vlc?

Sounds like you are in a fairly new version of windows? Maybe XP?

You should be able to just kill the process...

taskkill /IM vlc.exe

Details are found here on various ways to kill the process...

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/446/xp_k ... _taskkill/

You can shut down gracefully, you can force it... I think it shoud work from any command prompt. Now if you are just looking to "pause" the video and then re-start it... that's a different story.

In our application we have a batch file that runs in the scheduler at 7pm and stops the video from playing... then at 7am another batch file starts the player in full screen mode running a video playlist. We do this in XP.

Good luck.