Hotkey settings, mouse click=pause, can't change using s as hotkey

[hpcampr2]

Two hotkey questions. I think I used to have this working but can't do it now. I'd like the video to pause and unpause when I left click my mouse when it's in the video area. I can't figure out how to do this. I thought I used to have it working before I mistakenly reset my preferences. Also I tried to change the hotkey for screenshot to s but every time I press s it shuts the video down? Thanks.

[Hitchhiker]

It's much simpler just to toggle Pause by hitting the Spacebar. There's no mouse function which will achieve the same thing AFAIA.

Hitting "S" on it's own will stop a video and exit vlc so that's working as intended. Hit Shift + S to take a screenshot.

[hpcampr2]

Normally I use smplayer but just use VLC for certain things it can't do like crop. I'm pretty sure I had s as the hotkey for screenshot in vlc before. That's the same shortcut I use in smplayer (which I don't think was the default there either) so it's easier to remember. Yes, I'm aware the spacebar pauses it but I prefer to use the mouse left click if possible. I also use this nice program x-mouse button control so it may have been a combination with that. Thanks for further tips.

[Hitchhiker]

Normally I use smplayer but just use VLC for certain things it can't do like crop. I'm pretty sure I had s as the hotkey for screenshot in vlc before. That's the same shortcut I use in smplayer (which I don't think was the default there either) so it's easier to remember. Yes, I'm aware the spacebar pauses it but I prefer to use the mouse left click if possible. I also use this nice program x-mouse button control so it may have been a combination with that. Thanks for further tips.

Hit Ctrl + P to open prefs, click the Hotkeys button and then type the letter 'S' in the search field. In the list of results 's' on its own stops a video.

There's a plugin you can use to achieve your goal of using the mouse to pause/play: https://github.com/nurupo/vlc-pause-cli ... in#windows

[Hitchhiker]

Did it work? If not there's an alternative you can try which is to use a third party tool to bind a specific key to a mouse button. See this thread for details: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 26#p323126

The third party tool suggested by mederi is this one: http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMou ... ontrol.htm