VLPause for VLC

Automatic pause of video being played.

Description

This Lua extension for VLC allows the currently playing video to automatically pause a number of times, with a -- INTERMISSION -- message on screen.

The number of times the video will pause for intermission can be calculated or manually entered. This is defined in the VLPause configuration window.

• Total time: the total time of the current video
• Calculated # of intermissions: the calculated number of intermissions for the currently playing video
  • will be re-calculated on every start of play
  • the calculated number of intermissions will be (this is a simple algorithm that fits my needs, no science behind this!)
    • for videos less than 1h15m, 0 intermissions
    • otherwise, number of hours in duration - 1h15m plus 1
• Auto-apply calculated # of intermissions: when checked, only the calculated number of intermissions will always be used (disregarding the value entered in # of intermissions)
• # of intermissions: number of intermissions manually entered (will only be used if the aut-apply checkbox is not checked)
• Intermission message: message to be displayed on intermission

Installation

Copy the VLPause_ext.lua and VLPause_intf.lua files to the following folders (depends on your OS) :

• VLPause_ext.lua (installation directory lua/extensions)
  • Windows (all users): %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\
  • Windows (current user): %APPDATA%\VLC\lua\extensions\
  • Linux (all users): /usr/lib/vlc/lua/extensions/
  • Linux (current user): ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/
  • Mac OS X (all users): /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions/
  • Mac OS X (current user): /Users/%your_name%/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc/lua/extensions/
• VLPause_intf.lua (instalation directory lua/intf)
  • Windows (all users): %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\intf\
  • Windows (current user): %APPDATA%\VLC\lua\intf\
  • Linux (all users): /usr/lib/vlc/lua/intf/
  • Linux (current user): ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/intf/
  • Mac OS X (all users): /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/intf/
  • Mac OS X (current user): /Users/%your_name%/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc/lua/intf/

NOTE: Create directories if they do not exist!

Or, take the zip file in the release assets and unzip into the Lua directory.

Changelog

• 0.7
  • allow customization of intermission message
• 0.6
  • replace static dropdown to select the number of intermissions with text input to allow manual entry
• 0.5
  • replace "automatic skip intermission if suggested is zero" with "auto-apply suggested number of intermissions"
  • calculate suggested number of intermissions instead of relying on a static mapping table
  • refactor loop function to re-calculate variables when input URI changes
  • display number of planned intermissions on start of play
• 0.4
  • allow automatic skip intermission if suggested number of intermissions is zero [obsolete v0.5]
• 0.3
  • allows selection of number of intermissions, up to 5 equal length chunks [obsolete v0.6]
  • add suggested number of intermissions based on duration of input
  • other cosmetic changes
• 0.2
  • fix issue when running on a brand new install of vlc
• 0.1
  • initial version with pausing only at 50% duration of playing item [obsolete v0.3]

Acknowledgements

• https://vlc.verg.ca/
• https://github.com/GDoux/Perroquet-Subtitles-for-VLC
• Lua reference manual
• Programming in Lua (first edition)
• Time v3.2 (c) lubozle
• lua-users wiki - String Recipes
• How to dump a table to console?
• LUA script
• Lua compiler
• Run lua in the browser
• Big Buck Bunny (c) copyright 2008, Blender Foundation / www.bigbuckbunny.org