How to stop a VLC player from another application?

Question

I have started the VLC player in my application using this code:

Process.Start("C://Program Files//Videolan//VLC//VLC.exe", "\"rtsp://xxx.xxx.xx.xx:554/h264\" --qt-start-minimized --sout=#transcode{vcodec=theo,vb=800,acodec=flac,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:file{dst=C:\\123.ogg,no-overwrite}");

Now I need to stop/close this. Please advice.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 06 '13 at 19:36

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Process.Kill(); should do the trick.

A somewhat gentler way would be Process.CloseMainWindow, but depends on implementation.

Reference: Process.Kill Method (MSDN).

edited Dec 06 '13 at 19:36

Jimmy

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answered Dec 06 '13 at 18:53

OnoSendai

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 06 '13 at 18:58

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You can kill by using the following code

try
{   
    foreach (Process proc in Process.GetProcessesByName("processname"))
    {
        proc.Kill();
    }
}
catch(Exception ex)
{

}

edited Dec 06 '13 at 18:58

Sriram Sakthivel

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answered Dec 06 '13 at 18:55

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utorrent? Where did that come from? – gleng Dec 06 '13 at 18:55
Edited your answer for formatting. Use `{}` button, which formats the code block. – Sriram Sakthivel Dec 06 '13 at 18:59
If the OP already have a direct reference to the process, iterating through all current processes is wasteful. – OnoSendai Dec 06 '13 at 19:17
There is no direct reference to the process. So, this option worked! – Vinshi Dec 06 '13 at 19:22
There is, @Vinshi - Process.Start creates it. Check Process.ID, for example. – OnoSendai Dec 06 '13 at 20:11
How will i know th ID of the process? – Vinshi Dec 06 '13 at 20:17
I want to start the process in a method StartProcess() and stop it is another method StopProcess() – Vinshi Dec 06 '13 at 20:17

How to stop a VLC player from another application?

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