Global Hotkeys?

[ssbssa]

Global Hotkeys for vlc 0.9.2 (windows only): http://www.savefile.com/files/1803228

[Zenica]

Thanks for this...

Is there a way to get it working with the HP media player remote?

[ssbssa]

i don't know, i don't have one

[Zenica]

I'd send you an extra I have if you would develope a way of getting VLC to work with the HP Remote!

[bugmenot]

Can anyone port the plugin to 0.9.4?

[beto113]

Me too... I really agree that this is a must have feature...

I have a Dell XPS... and for me is really important use the global key just as easy and useful as the foobar does, it lets you edit/ add any short cut global or not.

for instance i would like to be able to have 3 shortcuts for play/pause function... ( 1- Space bar - 2 - Travel Remote control global hotkey - 3 - play/pause of my media dedicated keys global as well)

i saw that there there are a pluggin for VLC 0.9.2 but any for 0.9.4 yet???


any possibility to merge this pluggin within the next versions of VLC???

all the best Beto

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Plugins are compatible between 0.9.x versions.

[beto113]

Global Hotkeys for vlc 0.9.2 (windows only): http://www.savefile.com/files/1803228

Its working with 0.9.4 as well

Great job!!!

cheers

[Teffjohn]

The global hotkey control is a simple control that you drop on your form and set its properties and it then triggers its Hotkey pressed event whenever the hotkey combination you have selected is pressed regardless of whether your application
has the focus or not.The MCL Hotkey component is a .NET component which allows you to react to a specified hotkey combination on a system wide basis.
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teff john

[VLC_help]

There isn't any .NET code in VLC, so you can't integrate The MCL Hotkey component to VLC.

[mac800]

i Have been pointed in this direction for some help this seems like the most relvenat feed. I am currently running VLC player 0.9.6 and have got the global keys working when it is not selected but i am trying to get it to do the following. I have mulitple instances running at once on a multiple screen PC. I want to cue the videos up and then have some sort of play all function so they all play with a single button press. I have tried global hot keys but it only seems to work on the first instance. Hope someone can help with this.

Thanks in advance.

[ssbssa]

you are right, global hotkeys are designed to work only with the first instance.

[mac800]

Has anyone got any ideas how i could get it to work all at once? it would be a great help to know.

Thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

you are right, global hotkeys are designed to work only with the first instance.

Do you plan to fusion your module with the normal hotkeys or not?

[mac800]

Not as far as i am aware i just want a system where i can play and pause all instances open at the same time Simultaneously. it so all the videos are in sync or close to it, As you can imagine if i go to so do this manually by the time i hit the 6th window it is out by a long way.

Thanks Again for your help

[ssbssa]

Do you plan to fusion your module with the normal hotkeys or not?

Is it already possible to specify 2 or more hotkeys for the same action (i havn't tried 1.0 yet)? Otherwise i don't think it would be wise to fuse them.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Do you plan to fusion your module with the normal hotkeys or not?

Is it already possible to specify 2 or more hotkeys for the same action (i havn't tried 1.0 yet)? Otherwise i don't think it would be wise to fuse them.

Well, I think that this is almost trivial to do (set 2 hotkeys for one action)

[ssbssa]

any pointers on how you would handle that would really help me.
i would prefer if it were possible to specify an arbitrary amount of hotkeys for every action, and additionally set a flag if it should be global or not.
but this means the core and some other modules (gui-preferences) have to be changed.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

any pointers on how you would handle that would really help me.
i would prefer if it were possible to specify an arbitrary amount of hotkeys for every action, and additionally set a flag if it should be global or not.
but this means the core and some other modules (gui-preferences) have to be changed.

I don't think we can set a number arbitrary of keys per action, but doubling it is quite easy in the core.

[ssbssa]

some more questions:
1) should the 2nd hotkey always be global or a flag added to let user choose (flag means again the gui needs changes)?
2) should the 2nd hotkey exist even in OS where no global hotkeys are available?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

some more questions:
1) should the 2nd hotkey always be global or a flag added to let user choose (flag means again the gui needs changes)?
2) should the 2nd hotkey exist even in OS where no global hotkeys are available?

1) a flag, I would say. GUI can be updated.
2) well, I would say that we do a second set of keys, not set. And on OS that can have global hotkeys, define some.

[Tozzano]

I Replaced the libqt4_plugin.dll from my installation of VLC 0.9.6 and it works well. (It now shows version 0.9.3-git Grishenko)

For those that claim it does not work globally... I am running Vista Ultimate and even when VLC is not the focus app, the global hotkeys are read correctly.

ssbssa... Thanks again for your continued work on this.

Tozzano

[alrightgame]

I'm new to VLC player and was trying to figure out how to use my old microsoft multimedia keyboard buttons to work with this program.
I found this forum, downloaded the plugin in for this.
First off, I don't really understand this guys instructions. He says

"to start vlc with Global Hotkeys enabled call 'vlc --extraintf=globalhotkeys' (with this way it's possible to control which vlc-instance has them enabled).
the automatic startup is enabled by adding globalhotkeys to "Preferences/Interface/Main Interfaces/Extra interface modules" (in this case only the first instance has them working)."

I have no idea what that means, could someone enlighten me?
Also my keyboard as a media button that will open the windows default music player but vlc doesn't seem to support this key and was wondering if there was a way to get this to work and open vlc player when I press this button?
Thanks
*edit*
I was able to get the to get stop, next, back to work, but not without having to select the actual window first. Not really sure how to address this.
The play/pause doesn't work as it should. It plays but it won't pause it.
What is 0001-Global-Hotkeys-for-windows.patch that came in the plugin?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Only with 1.0.0

[alrightgame]

Ok, here is hoping. Goddamned winamp used to be king but they removed the media library option which just did it for me.

A suggestion from me is to add default functionality to the media button so it can be opened from your windows program default player.