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I use VLC on Windows 10 and find it super annoying that I cannot left-click to pause or play. Yes I know that I can press the spacebar. If I go into the Advanced Preferences, I double click on Play/Pause the window that pops up states "Press the new key or combination for Play/Pause" but it does not accept pressing the left mouse button (it did not accept any combination of mouse buttons). All of the video applications I use, except for VLC, use the left mouse button to pause/play. Please allow me to use the left mouse button to Pause/Play.

This is bad idea. I hate to use MPC because of this. So I don't use MPC because click to pause. Everytime I click, then my music stops. That's terrible!

jayR, sorry but I fail to understand your reasoning. BTW what is MPC? When viewing YouTube videos I can click inside the player window and it will pause the play, if I click anywhere outside the window it has no effect on the video playing. From your description I infer that no matter where you click on the screen the play stops. If this is correct I agree with you this would be bad. But for me when using VLC to pause the play I have to make the window active, then either press the spacebar or click on the pause button. For me when using VLC I'm watching an educational video and off in another window on my 2nd monitor taking some notes thus it is MUCH easier just to click in the VLC window to pause the play. IMHO one click is far easier than clicking in the VLC window to make it the active window and then clicking the pause button or pressing the space bar.

BTW if all you are doing is playing music I highly recommend MediaMonkey, see http://www.mediamonkey.com/

PotPlayer works for HDR using SVP with a few setting mods:
https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/SVP:Daum_PotPlayer
I would prefer using VLC if they had these 2 options:
- Pause and Play video by clicking video part of the window.
- Click and Drag video by clicking and dragging the video part of the window.
It appears the programmers say things like "you can't expect us to add features like this, it is free software" ..... so is PotPlayer and everything else!
Cheers!