It has to be off by default because otherwise it will break current filters that need mouse clicks.Give us the ability to turn it off if we wish.
On another thread i saw many months ago, that the maximized time bar will be looked into by version 2. but still no changes =(This is the main reason that VLC is not my primary video player. That and the fact that playback track bar doesn't get maximized to the screen width in the full screen mode.
Apparently it's rather a matter of lacking acceptance than of reading disabilities.What about users unable to read devs answer ?Actually, at first I did not bother to comment since the general tone was that of rejection due to unwillingness to take the time and understand the user's specific problem (quite common for brilliant engineers with less brilliant user interaction skills).
Using the right click menu for that purpose is (too) fiddly, but using the mouse gestures could be a close-enough workaround for many of those who posted here ... Alas, the chosen play/pause implementation is tricky as well:yes, you got the right click menu (improved in next version) and the mouse gestures.
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This is what the users see:
• MPC can do it ... ^^
• YouTube can do it ... ^^
• almost any web player can do it ... (so users get used to it)
• ... VLC cannot do it. -_-
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So quite possibly I was on the right track here ...Why not just using the gesture none for this essential functionality?!
Combined with the left button for gestures, mousedown —> no movement —> mouseup
would equate exactly to the desired action: a simple mouse click.
And your wireless mouse is incapable of right clicking?i bring the mouse to the livingroom table to start, stop and change file and cannot pause/play with the keyboard since it's not wireless
No, but there is no way to pause/play that is more easy than just clicking anywhere on the screen. To rightclick and select pause from the tiny menu or to press the pause button on the lower menu is much more easy to miss and takes sometimes several seconds instead of just clicking anywhere.And your wireless mouse is incapable of right clicking?i bring the mouse to the livingroom table to start, stop and change file and cannot pause/play with the keyboard since it's not wireless
Nice, simpler than my solution and seems to work fine, using it instead now.Now you can try this feature as a VLC2.0.x Extension: Click screen to PAUSE / PLAY
Hmm. Doesn't seem to work:Now you can try this feature as a VLC2.0.x Extension: Click screen to PAUSE / PLAY
dangit, lol, I'm stupid.@noxcovenant
What OS and VLC version?
I could not get it to work in VLC 2.2.1, (nor should I be required to download, install extensions for this basic simple feature IMHO).ANNOUNCEMENT: starting from VLC version 2.1 this extension stopped working, because VLC developers have removed few important callback from lua API, which this extension was relying on
MPC-HC: Options – Player – KeysI had to use Media Player Classic yesterday because of a VLC limitation (*cough* lacks forced DVD subs *cough*) and one of the most irritating parts of the experience was the "pause glitch" every time I double-clicked to switch between full-screen and windowed mode. I do the double-click action constantly on my multi-monitor setup while shifting windows around so after a couple of hours of it I wanted to smack the MPC devs. It blows my mind how many people are begging to have this evilness added to my beloved VLC.
Devs, if the mob does corner you with their torches and pitchforks and forces you to add this feature in the future, please:
- Give us the ability to turn it off if we wish.
- Correctly differentiate between single-click pause/play and double-click full-screen/windowed functions without the "pause glitch."
Historically, the single mouse click has been captured by some optional video filters, and by DVD/BD menus. If VLC paused on single clicks, then those use cases would just break. The problem with filters has more or less been resolved a few years ago by former developper Laurent Aimar.Why is "Click screen to pause / play" still not the default behavior of VLC?
It is not an option because nobody made it an option. Reimplementing the Lua script at the top of one of the other threads in native code would not be that hard, but it would break DVD and BD playback.Or at least an option?
Not so far.Or is there now an option in the preferences already I'm not aware of?
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