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Posted: **Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:15 am**

Hello, another question, now with videos. I have 2 videos, one we'll call video(1), and the other video(2). I would like 10 seconds after closing the video(1), to start the video(2). The task I did did not work, because the video(1) is much longer than 10 seconds.
Would you help me?

Posted: **Fri Jan 20, 2023 9:42 am**

Probably you should run video payer with option "Wait until the application exits"
Of course you must use the command line which closes videoplayer when it finish playing

It seems the standard Windows Media Player does not stop application when the movie is ended...
For example, you can use the VLC media player (it's free and very powerful and flexible player).
The command line is:
vlc --play-and-exit MyMovie.mp4

Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:17 pm**

Oleg wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 9:42 am Probably you should run video payer with option "Wait until the application exits"
Of course you must use the command line which closes videoplayer when it finish playing

It seems the standard Windows Media Player does not stop application when the movie is ended...
For example, you can use the VLC media player (it's free and very powerful and flexible player).
The command line is:
vlc --play-and-exit MyMovie.mp4

Congratulations.
Unfortunately I couldn't. It says the following message:
VLC --PLAY-AND-EXIT VID1.MP4 (Invalid variable name) VID1.mp4, is the name of the video in the folder. That's right? Where am I going wrong?

Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:44 pm**

You should use the full file name
for example

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vlc --play-and-exit "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftMinesweeper_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\vungleDiskCache\987eb941-9809-4e89-aeb6-6736a8d5fe48.mp4"

it works

Also please note that commands of VLC are case-sensitive

Look at my small example

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;*****************************
;* RoboTask Task file
;* Do not edit in text editor!
;*****************************
 
[Root]
ActionAfterRun=INTEGER|0
Actions=FOLDER
Automat=INTEGER|-1
CatID=INTEGER|693415217
Comment=STRINGLIST
ContinueOnError=INTEGER|0
DisableOnError=INTEGER|0
DoNotStopWhenShutdown=INTEGER|0
ExternalName=STRING|"Task49"
Hide=INTEGER|0
ID=INTEGER|1470755940
LogOnAsUser=INTEGER|1
Name=STRING|"Run movie in VLC"
OnErrorTaskID=INTEGER|1879502808
Priority=INTEGER|3
RunOnClose=INTEGER|0
RunOnStartup=INTEGER|0
ToLog=INTEGER|3
UnicodeFormat=INTEGER|1
WriteGeneralLog=INTEGER|0

[Actions]
Action1=FOLDER

[Actions\Action1]
ActionID=STRING|"A_GENERAL_RUN_PROG"
Enabled=INTEGER|-1
Name=STRING|"Run ""vlc  --play-and-exit  ..."
Params=FOLDER

[Actions\Action1\Params]
ifnonzero=STRING|"0"
params=STRING|" --play-and-exit {EOL}""C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftMinesweeper_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\vungleDiskCache\987eb941-9809-4e89-aeb6-6736a8d5fe48.mp4"" "
program=STRING|"vlc"
runas=STRING|"0"
wait=STRING|"2"

Save the text of the task to a file and use menu Task->Import to import the task into RoboTask.
Also you can simply copy task text and paste it into the task list.

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2023 3:01 am**

You Oleg are amazing! Your explanation and example worked perfectly. Thank you again.

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