Mac scheduled shutdown impossible while VLC running

[DarthKaal]

Being insomniac very often, I have the habit of watching series or movies at night. And as I often fell asleep in the middle, I use the OSX scheduled shutdown to avoid my Mac of running all night for nothing. But each morning, I have the same message saying that the shutdown couldn't be made because of VLC not quitting...

I was curious about it, as I usually have no problem to quit VLC, so I tried a scheduled shutdown during the day to see what's going on. And to my surprise, at the moment OSX is going to shut down, VLC doesn't do anything during 1 to 2 minutes before quitting, long enough to disable the shutdown... And during another test, I've seen that just moving the mouse a little during this couple of minutes seems to awake VLC and then it decides to quit for real... What the ?...

For the note, I remember having the exact same problem some years ago under Leopard and Snow Leopard (now on Mountain Lion).

[fkuehne]

Do you use the latest version of VLC?

[DarthKaal]

Yep, VLC 2.0.5.

[fkuehne]

How do you schedule the shut down? Using the Energy Saver settings in System Preferences or through a 3rd party application? If it's the latter, which one?

[DarthKaal]

Directly with the OSX Energy Saver settings.

[fkuehne]

Hmm, ok, I will try to reproduce and follow-up with you afterwards.

[fkuehne]

I reproduced this problem last night. Regrettably, there is no easy and obvious fix, so I created ticket 8311 on this matter.

Thanks for the report!

[DarthKaal]

Thanks for the answer, and for all the VLC team's hard work on this wonderful application!

[ziggyonice]

Reviving this post from four years ago.

We use VLC to playback an always-on video stream on a several large monitors in our building. However, when VLC is playing, our Macs are unable to shutdown automatically when using the built-in auto shutdown capability in the macOS Energy Saver preference pane. The computer presents an error indicating that VLC prevented shutdown.

This bug is still present in the latest version of VLC (2.2.4) for macOS, running any version of the operating system.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/8311

Any updates? Thanks.