Best VLC Keyboard Shortcuts for VLC Media Player – iOS and Windows XP/7/8/8.1

If you toggle keyboard shortcuts frequently like me, then you will love this shortcuts for the VLC player, almost instinctively I use the keyboard shortcuts for most of the task and features of the VLC.  The keyboard shortcuts make your work faster and also get the result faster, you make quick changes and adjustments when needed without blinking an eye.

Here are some of my favorite VLC Keyboard shortcuts

Space: toggle pause/play

F: toggle full-screen (you can also use Esc to leave full-screen mode)

Z: change zoom mode

Ctrl + Up / Down: Adjust volume up/down (you can also use mouse scroll wheel for this)

M: toggle mute

T: display time remaining/elapsed

+ / –: play media faster/slower

S: stop play

Ctrl + H: toggle control display

E: watch video frame by frame

V: toggle subtitles

P: previous item in media queue

N: next item in media queue

Quit – ALT+F4 or CTRL+Q ….Mac  Command+Q

VLC Keyboard Shortcuts for Audio Synchronisation

Mac: F and G
Windows: J and K

A full list of VLC Media Player Keyboard Shortcut.

Ctrl + A

Advanced controls

Ctrl + B

Bookmarks

Ctrl + C

Open capture device

Ctrl + D

Open disc

Ctrl + E

Extended settings

Ctrl + F

Open Folder/Directory

Ctrl + H

hide/show menus (a.k.a Minimal view; like in Acrobat Reader)

Ctrl + I

Media Information

Ctrl + J

Codecs Information

Ctrl + L

Hide/Show playlist

Ctrl + M

Messages

Ctrl + N

Open network stream

Ctrl + O

Open File

Ctrl + P

Preferences

Ctrl + Q

Quit

Ctrl + R

Convert/Save

Ctrl + S

Streaming

Ctrl + T

Goto Time

Ctrl + U

Dock/Undock playlist

Ctrl + V

Paste Location/Paste MRL

Ctrl + Shift+W

VLM configurator

Ctrl + X

Load playlist

Ctrl + Y

Save playlist

+

faster

–

slower

ESC

leave fullscreen/close dialogue

VLC easy to use shortcuts

VLC Shortcuts

space

play/pause

Enter

select menu entry (dvd)

Arrows

navigate menus (dvd)

A

cycle aspect ratio

B

cycle audio track

C

cycle cropping ratio

D

cycle deinterlace filters

E

next frame (1.0 and over)

F

toggle fullscreen

G

subdelay down

H

subdelay up

I

interface show

J

audiodelay down

K

audiodelay up OR next subtitle-track (or none) (??????????????)

L

loop

M

mute

N

next track

O

original video size ( adding the black borders to the video )

P

previous track

R

random

S

stop

T

position/time

V

subtitle track cycle

W

wallpaper (does only work with video output DirectX)

Z

cycle zoom

Shift + A

cycle audio device

Shift + B

title next

Shift + G

history back

Shift + H

history forward

Shift + N

chapter next

Shift + O

title prev

Shift + P

chapter prev

Shift + M

disc menu

Shift + R

Record

Shift + S

snapshot

Alt + A

audio menu (English translation)

Alt + C

crop / (+shift) uncrop bottom

Alt + D

crop / (+shift) uncrop left

Alt + F

crop / (+shift) uncrop right

Alt + H

help menu (English translation)

Alt + L

playback menu (English translation)

Alt + M

media menu (English translation)

Alt + R

crop / (+shift) uncrop top

Alt + T

tools menu (English translation)

Alt + V

video menu (English translation)

Alt + Left Arrow

jump 10 sec. back

Alt + Right Arrow

jump 10 sec. forward

Control + Left Arrow

jump 1 minute back

Control + Right Arrow

jump 1 minute forward

Control + Alt + Left Arrow

jump 5 minutes back

Control + Alt + Right Arrow

jump 5 minutes forward

Shift + Left Arrow

jump 5 seconds back

Shift + Right Arrow

jump 5 seconds forward