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If it was not an option but a default feature won't it be possible to automatically turn off the option if a DVD or blue ray is playing? It should be easier than to detect if you are invoking a menu or not. It means click to play/pause wouldn't be supported for format with menu but would work for a...

sometimes unwonted fullscreen get triggered because its work with same left mouse click. so i have to keep extra couple second time delay between each click. You can disable full screen being triggered by a double-click, so that no matter how fast you left click, VLC won't go full screen. And since...

sometimes there is a chance of false trigger and unexpected behave so I prefer to separate key trigger of those 2 actions. Not sure what you mean by that. Pause/play won't get triggered unless you click, there is no false trigger or unexpected behavior. If your left mouse button somehow got broken ...

Just a heads up that the new version of the plugin learned to work correctly in DVD menus - it won't pause/play if you mouse click while in the menu.

I understand this and appreciate the work you are doing.

I have looked into adding the functionality into VLC myself, but the proper way to do this, one which VLC team would merge, seemed to be rather involved due to the DVD/BR menu and other things, so I have settled on writing a plugin instead.

In fact https://github.com/nurupo/vlc-pause-click-plugin does not work with VLC 2.2.6 x64 for me, the plugin appears in the menus, but selecting any of the possible mouse buttons it offers to click to pause, it does nothing other than default VLC behaviour when I click the video, even after restart...