VLPause - intermission for VLC

Automatically pause what you are watching halfway through play.

Description

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

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

• 0.3
  • allows selection of number of intermissions, up to 5 equal length chunks
  • 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

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 Recipies
• How to dump a table to console?
• Big Buck Bunny (c) copyright 2008, Blender Foundation / www.bigbuckbunny.org