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Keyboard shortcuts are a crucial way to do almost anything on your computer faster, whether it’s browsing the web, working with text, or just getting around your desktop. Among its other useful features, VLC is packed with keyboard shortcuts.
These are particularly useful when you have VLC in full-screen mode. Perhaps you’re using VLC to play videos at a distance — you can turn a wireless keyboard into a makeshift remote control.
Essential Playback Shortcuts
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Here are the most common — and most useful — VLC keyboard shortcuts you need to know. Bear in mind that these are customizable, so if they don’t seem to work, you’ve probably changed the keyboard shortcut settings on your own system.
Space: Play/Pause. This is the easiest way to pause a video while it’s playing, or to resume a video that’s paused. This shortcut also works in many other video players — for example, on YouTube.
F: Toggle full-screen mode. If VLC is in full-screen mode, you can press F again or just press Esc to go back to windowed mode. You can also double-click the VLC playback window to enter or leave full-screen mode.
N: Next track in playlist
P: Previous track in playlist
Ctrl + Up or Down arrow: Increase or decrease volume. This will change VLC’s volume slider, not the system-wide volume. You can also increase or decrease the volume by rolling your mouse’s scroll wheel up or down.
M: Mute.
T: Displays the time remaining in the media file and the time elapsed. This information will only appear for a second or two. When watching a video in full screen mode, it’s a quick way to see how much longer you have left in the video.
Skip Ahead or Back
VLC has several different key combinations that let you “jump” forward or back in the file without needing to use your mouse cursor. Use these keys to effectively rewind or fast forward, whether you need to hear something again or skip ahead.
Shift + Left or Right arrow: Jump 3 seconds back or forward
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Alt + Left or Right arrow: Jump 10 seconds back or forward
Ctrl + Left or Right arrow: Jump 1 minute back or forward
Ctrl + Alt + Left or Right arrow: Jump 5 minute back or forward
Ctrl + T : Go to a specific time in the file. You can type the time in with your number keys and press Enter to go there without using the mouse.
Control Playback Speed
VLC also offers variable playback speed, so you can make an audio or video play back slower or faster. This can be convenient when you’re trying to get through a lecture, podcast, or audiobook and want to speed things up.
[ or – : Decrease playback speed. [ decreases it by less, and – decreases it by more.
] : Increase playback speed
= : Return to the default playback speed
Choose Subtitles and Audio Tracks
Some video files have accompanying subtitles, and some have multiple different audio tracks — for example, different languages or commentary tracks. You don’t have to bring up VLC’s menu to switch between these.
V: Toggles subtitles on or off
B: Cycle between available audio tracks. You’ll see the name of the audio track appear as an overlay when you switch to it.
Customize Your Hotkeys
All of these hotkeys are fully customizable. To customize your hotkeys, click Tools > Preferences in VLC. Select the Hotkeys icon in the Simple preferences view. You can also find these options under Interface > Hotkeys settings in the All preferences view. The All view has a few more options — for example, it lets you change the amount of seconds the “Jump ahead” and “Jump back” key combinations skip back or forward. Double-click a hotkey field to set a new hotkey.
You’ll find lots of options here, including a “Boss key” that isn’t set by default. Set your own boss key and you can make VLC automatically hide itself in the system tray with a single key press. “Boss keys” are so-named because you press them when your boss comes around to check on you so you can pretend you’re actually working.
There’s also an option to control what the mouse wheel does — if the default volume control option doesn’t work for you, you can have the mouse wheel skip back or ahead in the current media file, or tell VLC to ignore the mouse wheel if you just find yourself bumping it accidentally.
Set Global Hotkeys
All the hotkeys here only work while the VLC window is in focus. However, VLC also has the ability to create “global hotkeys” that work no matter what program you have visible. These are most useful if you’re using VLC as a background music or audio player — you can set Play/Pause, Next Track, and Previous Track keys to control VLC’s playback while using other applications. But any of VLC’s shortcut key actions can become global hotkeys.
Double-click the Global hotkey field to the right of any hotkey action to set a new global hotkey. If your keyboard has media keys for actions like Play/Pause, they make great global hotkeys.
These aren’t all of VLC’s hotkeys. You’ll find a complete list in its preferences pane, and you can see hotkeys associated with many of the actions just by opening VLC’s Media, Tools, or View menus. Whatever you want to do with VLC, you can probably do it with a keyboard shortcut.
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HomeTutorials and GuidesUseful VLC Media Player features you might not know about
VLC Media Player is one of the most-used media players now available, not just for its stability and versatility when it comes to playing all sorts of multimedia files, but also for the number of extra features it includes. These are some of the many features that lots of people don’t know about for the player from VideoLan, such as the option to change the format of your videos, do live captures of what’s happening on the screen, download YouTube videos, or even record disks in physical format.
Convert audio and video formats
If you go to Media> Convert / Save…, you’ll access a menu from which you can change the format of any video, or even integrate external subtitles, link several clips, or change the video or audio codec, the type of container file, the resolution and the bitrate.
Capture video or audio as it’s played
It’s possible to capture “on the fly” the video or audio file that’s being played at a particular moment. To do so, you’ll have to display a panel with the corresponding options from View > Advanced controls. Clicking on the icon with the record symbol will start the capture, and clicking again will stop it. The output file will be automatically stored in the Videos in My Documents.
Add watermarks
In the Tools > Effects and Filters section you’ll find countless modifiers to make changes to the color, video, format or various viewing options in the video. In particular, from Video effects > Overlay you can add any type of watermark or superimposed image that you can later export to integrate into the video.
Capture frames
Both during playback or with the video paused, it’s possible to do a screen capture of the frame in question by selecting the VLC window and holding down Shift + S (CMD + Alt + S on Mac). The screenshot will automatically be saved on the desktop.
Remotely control the player
It’s possible to control the multimedia player via a browser installed on a remote machine. To do so, you have to enable it in Tools > Preferences > Interface (ticking the ‘Show settings’ option in ‘All’) > Main interfaces and ticking the ‘Web’ box. Then, also within the ‘Interface’ section and inside Main interfaces > Lua, select a password in the Lua HTTP > Password section.
After that, and from a computer connected to the same network, the only thing left to do is type into a browser tab the IP of the computer where VLC is found, followed by the port 8080, that is x.x.x.x.:8080, where you can access a series of options as if it were a web multimedia player.
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Add and sync subtitles
If the subtitles have the same name and are found in the same file as the original video, VLC will detect and automatically play them, but you can also make many more changes in the viewing system. Besides being able to manually load them from Subtitle > Add Subtitle File, it’s possible to sync them if they are delayed or running ahead of the audio, as well as modify the default time each line of text will stay on the screen before disappearing.
Download videos online
From Media > Open Network Stream you can download via URL any video being streamed to play on VLC, and can combine some of the aforementioned features such as recording the video locally in whatever format you want.
Record what happens on your desktop
Besides the ability to capture audio being played or video being streamed, it’s also possible to select an external capture source to do the same thing, whether via webcam or your computer’s own video output. In Media > Capture device > Capture Device it’s possible to select the desktop as the source to capture everything happening on the screen in real time, and can also select the output format and video and audio codecs.
Burn DVDs, Blu-Rays or audio CDs
As if that weren’t enough, you can also directly record multimedia content on physical disks. If you go to Media > Convert / Save > Disc it’s possible to record videos on DVD, Blu-ray and Video CD, as well as audio tracks on CD, selecting, as in other cases, the output format. You can even generate individual chapters if you’ve made multiple selections.
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