Using keyboard media controls for VLC in background

[edboy558]

I can't figure out how to make VLC recognize the media controls on my keyboard when it is not the active window (play/pause, next, previous). Is there any way to do this? Basically I want the play/pause button to pause the media in VLC while I am in another window, like how WMP does.
I tried using Media Keyboard 2, but it interprets a press and release as a double press, and thus does not pause media.

[VLC_help]

Your VLC version?

[edboy558]

1.1.7

[VLC_help]

Are you sure some other program doesn't eat the hotkey events?

[edboy558]

I'm not sure how I would determine this. The buttons work when VLC is the active window. I assume VLC is not listening to user input when it is not the active window, but want to know how to make them work.

[VLC_help]

It does listen. If you are running Winamp same time, it will eat the global hotkeys.

[edboy558]

Ok, the problem was that I had the buttons set in "hotkey", not in "global".
Thanks.

I'd like to recommend that these global hotkeys be set by default in future versions.