# nurupo/vlc-pause-click-plugin

Plugin for VLC that pauses/plays video on mouse click

Repository: https://github.com/nurupo/vlc-pause-click-plugin
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vlc-pause-click-plugin
Language: C
License: LGPL-2.1
License Family: copyleft
Topics: vlc, plugin, vlc-plugin
Last push: 2025-01-28T11:12:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 24/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 3, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4357, "days_push": 582, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1201, forks 74 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:58.177473+00:00)

## What it is
A VLC media player plugin written in C that lets users pause or play video by clicking on the video image. It also supports mouse button re-assignment, such as disabling or remapping double-click fullscreen and right-click context menu behavior.

## Use cases
- pause vlc video by clicking on it
- toggle play/pause with mouse click in vlc
- prevent double-click fullscreen from pausing video
- remap vlc mouse buttons like fullscreen on right click
- disable right-click context menu in vlc

## When to choose
- you want YouTube-like click-to-pause behavior in VLC
- you want to customize VLC mouse button bindings
- you use VLC 2.1 through 3.0 on Windows, macOS, or Linux

## When to avoid
- you use VLC 2.0 or older
- you need guaranteed support for VLC 4.0 nightly builds
- you don't use VLC as your media player

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: plugin-system, gui
- domain: media, desktop-applications, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: vlc, video-player, mouse-click, media-playback, c, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- nurupo/vlc-pause-click-plugin (main) score 24

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.177473+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:20:43.169726+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nurupo/vlc-pause-click-plugin (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:58.177473+00:00, sha d329ad38d934)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.