Pause YouTube video via ControlSend

[kjpolker]

As the title suggests I am looking for a way to pause YouTube videos using ControlSend as the video is an inactive window.

I am only aware that pausing a video can be done so by hitting the "Space" key WITHIN the video. I assumed I could achieve this by using the following code:

ControlSend("[CLASS:Chrome_WidgetWin_1]", "", "[CLASS:Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND]", "{SPACE}")

This is not doing anything though. I have also tried ControlClick but with no success.

Is there something outside the box I am not thinking of? If all else fails I will just activate the window and click at a coordinate.

Snapshot of window information:

Edited February 14, 2018 by kjpolker

[Danp2]

Is this running in a Chrome browser window or something else?

[kjpolker]

1 minute ago, Danp2 said:

Is this running in a Chrome browser window or something else?

This is running in a Chrome browser yes. Specifically, with the widget parameter built into Chrome.

[Danp2]

There's a Chrome UDF that should allow you to simulate a click in the browser window. You could also take a look at the Webdriver UDF in my signature.

[kjpolker]

I am not very familiar with UDF, It seems as though I need to install the support into my Chrome? Which in turn means that the function will only ever work on a computer with it installed?

[Danp2]

Sorry, but I've never used the Chrome UDF. If you search, I'm sure you can find the answer on the forum.

[kjpolker]

Well what I ended up doing as a placeholder is just to activate the window. Not sure why the window needs to be activated but without that line the video continues to run.

WinActivate($hWnd)
ControlSend($hWnd, "", "Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND1", "{SPACE}")
Sleep(10)

I was hoping it would be an easy solution.

[Deye]

Provided you where getting the correct $hWnd and the last click was in the video frame then this should work for you without any problems, maybe its possible to pin in to the video frame control with the chrome UDF  not sure, didn't look into it
Otherwise this might be the easiest - simple solution yet .. 

  

#include <WinAPI.au3>

$hWnd = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Chrome_WidgetWin_1]")
If Not @error Then _PlayPause(_WinAPI_GetWindow($hWnd, $GW_HWNDNEXT))

Func _PlayPause($hWnd)
    If Not StringInStr(WinGetTitle($hWnd, ""), "YouTube") Then Return
    Local $hC = "Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND1"
    ControlFocus($hWnd, "", $hC)
    ControlSend($hWnd, "", $hC, "{SPACE}")
EndFunc