Bluetooth headset with Global Hotkeys

[pinkbecca]

please someone help me with this, I have a Sony Bluetooth headset, when I want to register the play/pause button on my headset to VLC's play/pause setting it's not registering, but registering the backwards and forward buttons work, any solution please?

[pinkbecca]

as shown above, I'm able to register only backward and forward button from my bluetooth headset, why isn't the pause/play button allowing me to register?, please help.

[pinkbecca]

why isn't anyone helping me with this?, at least any VLC staff could tell me there'd be a fix soon for this issue

[ssbssa]

Could it be that some other application already registered the play / pause hotkey?

[hofnarretei]

Same issue here with Sony SBH80:
Was able to set the headset's next and previous buttons as global hot keys; however, setting the play/pause doesn't work.

I also tried to modified the corresponding key in vlcrc:
#global-key-play-pause=Media Play Pause

But VLC ignores that setting and will remove the key after closing.

As long as VLC is in foreground, next, previous, and also play/pause DO work fine with the headset's buttons.

[pinkbecca12]

please fix this VLC

[pinkbecca12]

ok it turns out it's Intel's Bluetooth stack that won't allow me to register the Pause/Play hotkey, because I tried on a Toshiba laptop with their own Bluetooth stack and it works, I hope Intel fixes this.

[pinkbecca12]

if anyone knows how to fix this Play/Pause button please let me know