Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

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Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby Gary King » 17 Jun 2011 08:33

In VLC, I have unchecked "Control playback with media keys" so I can continue using them for iTunes instead. I normally listen to music, so when I open a video, I hit the "pause" key to pause the music. However, since 1.1.10, hitting the pause key does nothing when VLC is active. So it seems like VLC is disabling the media keys completely.
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Re: Since 1.2.0, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 Jun 2011 12:56

1.2.0 is not released.
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Re: Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby Gary King » 17 Jun 2011 20:07

Apologies, I meant 1.1.10. And I believe 1.1.10.1 just came out a few days ago, which has the same problem of course.

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Re: Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 20 Jun 2011 00:17

Keep "Control playback with media keys" checked, then.
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Re: Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby Gary King » 20 Jun 2011 07:28

Keep "Control playback with media keys" checked, then.
I don't want the media keys to control playback, though. I want VLC to completely ignore them. However, VLC is instead disabling the media keys so I can't use them with iTunes when VLC is open.

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Re: Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby thunderflash » 20 Jun 2011 19:52

I've got the same problem here.

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Re: Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby Wizardling » 21 Jun 2011 04:10

I wonder if our problems are related - https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=91043
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Re: Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby dantelectro » 22 Jun 2011 12:36

Same here, iTunes does not respond to the media keys when VLC 1.1.10 is running.
I reverted to 1.1.9 via Time Machine.

The media key implementation in VLC never worked flawlessly, as if it's enabled it controls both iTunes and VLC.
As far as i know there's no way to turn off controlling iTunes with the media keys (i wouldn't want to anyway).

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Re: Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby fkuehne » 11 Jul 2011 16:11

Hello,

I just wanted to let you know that this issue is resolved in VLC 1.1.11, which is scheduled for release tomorrow night.

Thanks for the reports!
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Re: Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby dantelectro » 14 Jul 2011 12:35

14th and still not available.

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Re: Since 1.1.10, media keys are disabled for iTunes

Postby fkuehne » 14 Jul 2011 13:47

Due to an important security issue.

Note that this is project is done by people in their spare time, so something things take a bit more time than expected.
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