After doing a lot of searching I am still scratching my head wondering how this is to be done. Specifically how to get information back from VLC on it's playing / not playing status.
From
http://wiki.videolan.org/ActiveX I see there is a call for "Playing" but that page also states that the ActiveX control should not be used any longer and go here
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin to the web plug in page for the VLC ActiveX v2
On that page I find the command,
"vlc.playlist.isPlaying: a boolean that returns true if the current playlist item is playing and false when it is not playing"
And that would be perfect! But how do I call this with AHK?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.