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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?

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.

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

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

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.

please fix this VLC

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.

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