Windows 10: play/pause and stop media keys on my keyboard on vlc

On my laptop I got windows media player legacy that I can play & pause music with it miminised however I want to do it on vlc media player but I can't do the same I play it on vlc media player & when I miminise it & use the play button on the keyboard it only does it on windows media player legacy how can I play music on vlc using the play/pause keys on my keyboard with it miminise

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Play/Pause and stop media keys not working

Hi everyone,

So I've got a weird problem, and I haven't found anyone else with the same issue.

For some reason the play/pause and stop media keys on my keyboard (K55) aren't working. If I test it on keyboardchecker.com it says MediaPlayPause and MediaStop, so the keys itself do work. I've tried it with both Spotify and VLC, and it they not do anything. Other keys like previous track, next track and volume controls work fine. It's just the play/pause and stop keys that don't work. Nothing happens.

Anybody got any clue as to what's going wrong here?

 

Play/Pause and stop media keys not working

Hi Martijn, I am Paulo and I'd like to help.

If you have a browser open, maybe it is hijacking the media keys that's why it doesn't work on Spotify and VLC. Try to close them and see if it works.

If not, try to set it to disable on your browsers and see if it would make a difference.

Enter this if you have Chrome:

chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling

If you have Edge:

edge://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling

If still not working, try the following

Close all apps before performing the below steps.

- Press the Windows key + R, type Services.msc and hit Enter.

- Then, locate for Human Interface Device Service from the list and look for the status of this service whether the service is started or stopped.

- If the service is stopped, then click on the Human Interface Device Service and click on Start.

- If the service is already started, then click on Restart to restart the service.

- Relaunch the Spotify/VLC and see if the media key would work

 

Media auto play and pause

Hi

while playing audio /video in builtin groove music or 3rd party vlc player I am facing issue that media randomly play and pause contentiously . I confirmed there is no keyboard input by opening word(so no key pressed).