Perhaps if you send a "restart player" command and then a "reboot unit" command ?

Nope, those are both "soft" boots which don't trigger the power control PIC to tell the unit to save the state to NVRAM. I'm pretty sure that this is either (a) not do-able, or (b) if it is do-able, it requires a specific command to be sent to the player, a command whose sole purpose is to tell it to save its state.

Keep in mind that the behavior I'm trying to work-around is standard behavior- Even EmpegUpgrade.exe induces this behavior.

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Tony Fabris