Talk:VLC HowTo/Shut down the computer at the end of the playlist

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This tutorial is very unclear for people that had never anything to do with .bat files.

Can you explain step by step what have to be done to make such script?

tia. Diskape 12:45, 6 November 2007

WinXP

This doesn't work on WinXP (at least), because the second application (shutdown, in this case) is not startet after VLC's quit, but instantly.

Anyway, if this worked, you could also add the quit.m3u to the startVLCcommand. Dan-yell 11:14, 27 August 2008‎


Updated batch file instructions are easier to follow and implement and should also prove compatible with most Windows based OS's. Vmi 17:54, 26 September 2010‎


Personally, I ran into problems shutting down when setting up Lubuntu on an old laptop, and have added in my solution, and tidied up a little... If anybody has a better suggestion for naming the Linux section then be my guest. Generalissimo 21:08, 9 September 2012 (CEST)