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