How to play/pause with a single mouse click?

Is it possible to play/pause a movie just by clicking on the window?

I really miss this feature from Media Player Classic, but from what I could find, it's not possible in VLC.


UPDATE on some links posted under this question.

Nurupo's vlc-pause-click-plugin plugin — already mentioned, now fully implements the desired feature (unlike the addon also mentioned here and comming with a requirement of manually enabling it each time, which made it an improbable solution).

The vlc-pause-click-plugin is cross-platform and works with 2.1, 2.2, 3.0 and even nightly 4.x builds.

Installation depends on the platform.

Some settings are needed after installation under Advanced Preferences

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Here, for "Pause click" filter, multiple mouse button choices are available: left, right, middle click, and other options

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Right mouse click is maybe the best option (while disabling context menu on right click) in case left-click interferes with DVD menus as some people claimed.

As for the difficulty of installing the plugin and accessing the advanced options (like mentioned under this question), that is probably either caused by not following the installation instructions or by not using the latest versions. (I have enabled this feature without any problems with VLC 3.0.8, 64-bit on Windows, Linux and Mac; on Mac I have also tested versions 2.1 and 2.2, and only the last one didn't work.)


This extension of VLC does pause/play with a single click on the screen. It works with versions 2.1, 2.2 and 3.0.