VLC Play/Pause on video-click

[pureby]

Hello comrades! If anyone wants their VLC Media Player to Pause and resume playback on video-click (like in YouTube or virtually any modern video player), here is a simple script that does just that:

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	#IfWinActive ahk_exe vlc.exe
;		[Play|Pause]
		~LButton::
			MouseGetPos, , , , VLC_control
			if InStr(VLC_control, "VLC video output")
			{
				Send, {Space}
			}
			VLC_control := ""
			Return
	#IfWinActive
	return

(I tknow there is another solution for this using the vlc-pause-click-plugin, however, it involves installation of a plugin and rather non-trivial setup. Also, for some reason this plugin got removed from my VLC every time I updated the player, meaning I had to jump through all the hoops after every update.)

My script simply emulates Space keypress (Play/Pause function in VLC) when left-clicking on the video (but not any other part of the VLC/Windows interface). All other functions of the player (like double-click for full-screen, seeking, full-screen controls, etc) are not effected and work as they should. Enjoy!

[DataLife]

This works great.

thank you for this...

[pureby]

@DataLife You are welcome! I'm glad other people find this useful

[scriptor2016]

Not that it matters, but I just assembled a different approach. I almost forgot how to do this simple task since I haven't even looked at scripting in over a year

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~LButton::
sleep, 50
wingettitle, title, A
if title contains - VLC media player
{ 
sendinput {space}
}
else
Return