VLC Player Quick Dev Reference

A visual cheat-sheet for the 82 keyboard shortcuts found in VLC Player.

Keyboard Shortcuts

General I

F — Fullscreen

Esc — Leave fullscreen

Space — Play/Pause

] — Pause only

[ — Play only

+ — Faster

- — Slower

= — Normal rate

N — Next

P — Previous

S — Stop

T — Position

Shift Left — Very short backwards jump

Shift Right — Very short forwards jump

Alt Left — Short backwards jump

Alt Right — Short forwards jump

Ctrl Left — Medium backwards jump

Ctrl Right — Medium forwards jump

Ctrl Alt Left — Long backwards jump

Ctrl Alt Right — Long forwards jump

E — Next frame

Enter — Activate

Up — Navigate up

Down — Navigate down

Left — Navigate left

Right — Navigate right

Shift M — Go to the DVD menu

Shift O — Select previous DVD title

General II

Shift B — Select next DVD title

Shift P — Select previous DVD chapter

Shift N — Select next DVD chapter

Ctrl Q — Quit

Ctrl Up — Volume up

Ctrl Down — Volume down

M — Mute

H — Subtitle delay up

G — Subtitle delay down

K — Audio delay up

J — Audio delay down

B — Cycle audio track

Shift A — Cycle through audio devices

V — Cycle subtitle track

A — Cycle source aspect ratio

C — Cycle video crop

O — Toggle autoscaling

Alt O — Increase scale factor

Shift Alt O — Decrease scale factor

D — Cycle deinterlace modes

I — Show interface

Shift I — Hide interface

Shift S — Take video snapshot

Shift G — Go back in browsing history

Shift H — Go forward in browsing history

Shift R — Record

Shift D — Dump

Z — Zoom

General III

Shift Z — Un-Zoom

W — Toggle wallpaper mode

Alt Shift M — Display OSD menu on top

Alt Ctrl M — Do not display OSD menu

Alt Shift Right — Highlight widget on the right

Alt Shift Left — Highlight widget on the left

Alt Shift Up — Highlight widget on top

Alt Shift Down — Highlight widget on bottom

Alt Shift Enter — Select current widget

Alt R — Crop one pixel from the top

Alt Shift R — Uncrop one pixel from the top

Alt D — Crop one pixel from the left

Alt Shift D — Uncrop one pixel from the left

Alt C — Crop one pixel from the bottom

Alt Shift C — Uncrop one pixel from the bottom

Alt F — Crop one pixel from the right

Alt Shift F — Uncrop one pixel from the right

R — Random

L — Normal/Repeat/Loop

Ctrl 1 — 1:4 Quarter

Ctrl 2 — 1:2 Half

Ctrl 3 — 1:1 Original

Ctrl 4 — 2:1 Double

3 — Very short jump length (integer)

Ctrl F1-F10 — Set playlist bookmark 1-10

F1-F10 — Play playlist bookmark 1-10