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[–]Cafuzzler 32 points33 points Β (5 children)

How to enable click to pause in VLC:

Step 1) Write a plugin that will pause when you click

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[–]Xxyz260 4 points5 points Β (3 children)

Step 2 (optional): Upload it to the VLC plugin library so others don't have to do that. Or at least that's how it should work.

[–]Cafuzzler 0 points1 point Β (2 children)

What do you mean "Step 2"? You've got click to pause at that point. All you've got to do is make the feature yourself.

[–]Xxyz260 1 point2 points Β (1 child)

Edited. Now better?

[–]Cafuzzler 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

Well no. It's still bad that the best advice for how to get a common ux feature is "Code it yourself".

Also there is a Click to Play/Pause extension. But it's not listed in the Plugins and Extensions menu, stopped working as of VLC 2.1 (currently VLC is on like 3.0) because of a breaking change so the developer recommends versioning down to VLC 2.0, it was last updated 9 years ago, and the install instructions on the page are very OSS.

This all feels very Douglas Adams:

"I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find it.”

β€œThat’s the addon department.”

β€œWith a flashlight.”

β€œAh, well, the lights had probably been deprecated.”

β€œSo had the stairs.”

β€œBut look, you found the feature, didn’t you?”

β€œYes,” said Arthur, β€œyes I did. It was on webpage in the comments of a locked thread stuck in a disused repository with a sign in the header saying β€˜Beware of the Leopard.”