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Sleep Timer
Posted: 12 Mar 2009 10:37
by maxVPL
I like to watch DVDs when I go to sleep. When they end they usually return to the DVD menu, which endlessly loops and often results in a very annoying sound repeat (that never fails to wake me up). Would it be possible to implement a simple sleep timer so that the program will close after x amount of minutes? If this feature already exists in VLC or in a script, I have not been able to locate it.
Re: Sleep Timer
Posted: 12 Mar 2009 15:11
by VLC_help
You can create your own script that kills VLC via telnet or RC after certain time.
Re: Sleep Timer
Posted: 13 Mar 2009 08:46
by Ian.Y
If you want to shutdown your pc after a set time try RS Somnifero (it's free). If you want VLC to shutdown after playing a film I have no clue :p
Re: Sleep Timer
Posted: 04 Apr 2009 08:09
by ac1dslayer
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=46381&p=188749#p188749
check out my post. within is a autohotkey script that i use and edited to do the exact same thing you want to do. sleep after x amount of minutes of being idle. hope that helps a bit if you have any questions shoot me a pm
Re: Sleep Timer
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 18:10
by eryksun
I wrote this little batch file to kill the vlc.exe process after a user set number of minutes (between 1 and 1440). Maybe someone else will find it useful.
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@echo off
echo VLC Sleep Timer
echo.
:setup_timer
set /p m= Enter number of minutes [1 to 1440]:
set m=%m:,=%
if %m% leq 1440 if %m% gtr 0 goto run_timer
goto setup_timer
:run_timer
set /a s=m*60
timeout /T %s% /nobreak
taskkill /T /F /im vlc.exe