LEFT and RIGHT
Seek backward/forward 5 seconds. Shift+arrow does a 1 second exact seek (see--hr-seek
).
UP and DOWN
Seek forward/backward 1 minute. Shift+arrow does a 5 second exact seek (see --hr-seek
).
Ctrl+LEFT and Ctrl+RIGHT
Seek to the previous/next subtitle. Subject to some restrictions and might not always work; see sub-seek
command.
[ and ]
Decrease/increase current playback speed by 10%.
{ and }
Halve/double current playback speed.
BACKSPACE
Reset playback speed to normal.
< and >
Go backward/forward in the playlist.
ENTER
Go forward in the playlist.
p / SPACE
Pause (pressing again unpauses).
.
Step forward. Pressing once will pause, every consecutive press will play one frame and then go into pause mode again.

,
Step backward. Pressing once will pause, every consecutive press will play one frame in reverse and then go into pause mode again.
q
Stop playing and quit.
Q
Like q
, but store the current playback position. Playing the same file later will resume at the old playback position if possible.
/ and *
Decrease/increase volume.
9 and 0
Decrease/increase volume.
m
Mute sound.
_
Cycle through the available video tracks.

Cycle through the available audio tracks.
f
Toggle fullscreen (see also --fs
).
ESC
Exit fullscreen mode.
T
Toggle stay-on-top (see also --ontop
).
w and e
Decrease/increase pan-and-scan range.
o (also P)
Show progression bar, elapsed time and total duration on the OSD.
O
Toggle OSD states between normal and playback time/duration.
v
Toggle subtitle visibility.
j and J
Cycle through the available subtitles.
x and z
Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
l
Set/clear A-B loop points. See ab-loop
command for details.
L
Toggle infinite looping.
Ctrl + and Ctrl -
Adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
u
Switch between applying no style overrides to SSA/ASS subtitles, and overriding them almost completely with the normal subtitle style. See --ass-style-override
for more info.
V
Toggle subtitle VSFilter aspect compatibility mode. See --ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat
for more info.
r and t
Move subtitles up/down.
s
Take a screenshot.
S
Take a screenshot, without subtitles. (Whether this works depends on VO driver support.)
Ctrl s
Take a screenshot, as the window shows it (with subtitles, OSD, and scaled video).
I
Show filename on the OSD.
PGUP and PGDWN
Seek to the beginning of the previous/next chapter. In most cases, "previous" will actually go to the beginning of the current chapter; see --chapter-seek-threshold
.
Shift+PGUP and Shift+PGDWN
Seek backward or forward by 10 minutes. (This used to be mapped to PGUP/PGDWN without Shift.)
d
Activate/deactivate deinterlacer.
A
Cycle aspect ratio override.

(The following keys are valid only when using a video output that supports the corresponding adjustment, or the software equalizer (--vf=eq
).)
1 and 2
Adjust contrast.
3 and 4
Adjust brightness.
5 and 6
Adjust gamma.
7 and 8
Adjust saturation.
Alt+0 (and command+0 on OSX)
Resize video window to half its original size.
Alt+1 (and command+1 on OSX)
Resize video window to its original size.
Alt+2 (and command+2 on OSX)
Resize video window to double its original size.
command + f (OSX only)
Toggle fullscreen (see also --fs
).
command + [ and command + ] (OSX only)
Set video window alpha.

(The following keys are valid if you have a keyboard with multimedia keys.)
PAUSE
Pause.
STOP
Stop playing and quit.
PREVIOUS and NEXT
Seek backward/forward 1 minute.

(The following keys are only valid if you compiled with TV or DVB input support.)
h and k
Select previous/next tv-channel.
H and K
Select previous/next dvb-channel.