No way to completely disable all media key usage in VLC

Expected:

I would like a setting in VLC to ignore the Media Play / Pause, Previous and Next keys, even when VLC is the active application. I would prefer to use these for music playback in other applications and I can use the space bar/ other keyboard shortcuts for VLC.

Using Windows 10.

Issue:

There doesn't appear to any way from disabling the Media Keys from working in VLC. I have tried finding anything in the global preferences, unsetting keys, etc. and I cannot find anything.

More Info:

Anywhere I look for this functionality, everyone says to unset the global hotkeys. I do not have any global hotkeys mapped.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/14689

https://old.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/ej4nij/media_keys/

By choosing the skinnable interface, these keys are ignored, but that has many disadvantages:

• Cannot resize by dragging from any corner as the default interface can.
• Cannot resize by dragging to top of monitor or sides to take up 1/2 of screen.
• In my specific case, I can't resize the window at all, because I can't drag it high enough to reach the resize handle in the lower right.

I would be open to working on this, but I would need someone to at least point me in the right direction first.

Uh? If another app grabs a key, VLC can't see it. I don't see why VLC should (or even could) have a setting that really belongs in the other app.

The problem is when VLC is the active application, it takes the Media Play / Pause, and I would prefer it did not.

Replying to [comment:3 Andrew Z]:

The problem is when VLC is the active application, it takes the Media Play / Pause, and I would prefer it did not.

That's not how it works, it's like Remi said. If another application registered the media keys as global hotkeys, then VLC will not see them at all.

The problem is when VLC is the active application, VLC takes the Media Play / Pause, and I would prefer it did not.

I guess it must be something in the way I worded the issue that another application is brought up. I could recreate the issue with no other applications running on my computer.

Does this make sense now after I clarified? This seems unlikely to get worked on, so if someone could point me in the right direction, I can try to take a look myself.

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