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I have been trying to assign the media keys on my keyboard for use with VLC (tried 0.9.9 and some of the latest nightlies for 0.9.10 and 1.0.0-pre1) and while the settings recognise that I set them, assigning values such as 'media prev track' and 'media next track', the interface does not seem to react to them. As a test case:

- take 0.9.9
- open the settings and set the short-cuts for previous and next to correspond to the 'media prev' and ' media next' keys (apply and save)
- place some media files into the play list and start playing
- try using those keys to jump previous and next

The result is that the track continues playing as if those keys were never pressed.

Have tested with a Dell keyboard, but I have someone else who is seeing the same issue with the G11 Keyboard.

Edit: corrected typing

but I have someone else who is seeing the same issue with the G11 Keyboard.

That would be me. I've brought up the subject in the IRC as I can't use my G11's media keys, while VLC enlists them as Media Next Track, Media Prev Track, Media Play Pause and Media Stop. I'd really like to know if its possible to use the keys, since they do work in WMM and WinAmp.

Any help is much appriciated!

Edit: I just tried a Trust keyboard with media keys, and that one didn't work either.

I have opened a ticket to track the issue, since I couldn't see any open tickets covering this problem:

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2647

Sorry for the enormous bump, but I just tried the same thing in Ubuntu 8.0.4.2 64-Bit Desktop edition, and it didn't work there either, so its not really windows-specific anymore.

No media keyboard on my linux...