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Hi,

Can someone please point me at information about how to set VLC up to use the DELL laptop's media keys on the front of the laptop.

I know where the hotkey configuration is, but don't know if the media keys emulate normal keyboard combinations and if so what these are and where they might be configured. Other media players don't seem to have trouble reponding to the keys so it can't be that unsual...

Thanks,
Dennis

Media keys should be supported for the next version of VLC.

Thanks for the response.

I since worked out the keycodes for the media buttons and have tried a number of things but there also appear to be other bugs in VLC, for example the "arrow" keys don't work WITHOUT some form of modifier, for example "right-arrow" won't do anything in VLC if set up as a hotkey but "shift + right-arrow" and all other combinations I have tried do.

If VLC supports keycodes (if not should) then I haven't worked out how to specify the required integers, and it would appear this is a different integer to the undocumented one required on the "--key-whatever" command line switch...