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tripleM
tripleM

Reputation: 131

Quitting VLC processes while streaming

I have two programs that start a VLC instance through the command line. One streams video, the other streams audio, both from dshow://

When I ask the programs to stop recording and quit VLC, even though both instances quit, the second one always leaves the process running in the background. Now, I can forcefully kill it, but that would mean my recording is somehow not released and stays corrupted, and I don't want that.

I've tried several quitting methods:

  1. Calling CTRL+Q (I have it set as the quit Global HotKey)
  2. taskkill /PID xxx on cmd.exe
  3. Adding vlc://quit to the end of my command line and calling next (I have ALT+N set as the next Global HotKey)
  4. Calling stop (again through HotKeys) and then quit.

None of these seems to work. Any ideas?

I'm running Windows 7 x64, and VLC 2.2.2 (I tried both 32 and 64 bit)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 830

Answers (1)

Amr
Amr

Reputation: 450

So I know this is two years later but I think this may help people. Like you I searched everywhere with nothing working until I tried this:

If nothing works try using the option --ignore-config at the beginning after vlc in addition to http://quit at the end

and it finally worked

Hope some one finds this useful

Upvotes: 1

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