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nurupo / vlc-pause-click-plugin

Plugin for VLC that pauses/plays video on mouse click
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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can't use this on Windows 7 without the flag #48

Closed DDoyle022 closed 6 years ago

DDoyle022 commented 6 years ago

I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise sp1. this plugin worked for quite a while but stopped working around 6 months ago. When I tried to find the play/pause settings, they weren't there.

I found the problem referenced in troubleshooting, where you add the --reset-plugins-cache flag. When I run it via command line with that flag, the play/pause settings are there and the plugin works. But if I close and restart VLC normally, the settings are gone and it no longer works.

I'm running 3.0.3 Vetinari 32-bit version.

nurupo commented 6 years ago

Is it possible that you have two different versions of VLC installed? The version that you start from the command line with the --reset-plugins-cache flag has the plugin installed, but the version that you normally start, e.g. use a desktop shortcut, is actually an entirely different version of VLC that doesn't have the plugin? This happened to someone before (they had both 32-bit and 64-bit VLC installed).

If you are sure that you have just a single version of VLC, I'd suggest to

  1. Uninstall it
  2. Make sure that all files from whenever it was installed into (the 32-bit version is probably installed into C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\) are gone, including the plugin
  3. Wipe all of its leftover data in %APPDATA%/vlc
  4. Install it back
  5. Add the plugin file back and enable it with checkboxes
DDoyle022 commented 6 years ago

Wow, I can't believe I missed that. Yes, that was the issue. The plugin now works for me. Thanks.

nurupo commented 6 years ago

Glad I could help.