========================== MPlayer keyboard shortcuts ========================== First published at 5/18/2020 on https://defkey.com/mplayer-shortcuts MPlayer is a free and open-source media player that runs in Linux, Windows and more. Initially released in 2000, MPlayer can play variety of media formats. The software can also be used to display TV from a TV card. MPlayer has 100 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below. General ------- Up arrow / Down arrow Seek forward/backward 1 minute Page Up / Down Seek forward/backward 10 minutes Page Up / Down Decrease/increase current playback speed by 10% Page Up / Down Halve/double current playback speed Backspace Reset playback speed to normal Backspace Go backward/forward in the playlist Enter Go forward in the playlist, even over the end Home Next/previous playtree entry in the parent list End Next/previous playtree entry in the parent list Insert (ASX playlist only) Next/previous alternative source Del (ASX playlist only) Next/previous alternative source P Pause (pressing again unpauses) Space Pause (pressing again unpauses) . Step forward. Pressing once will pause movie, every consecutive press will play one frame and then go into pause mode again (any other key unpauses) Q Stop playing and quit Esc Stop playing and quit Shift + U Stop playing (and quit if -idle is not used) + Adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 seconds - Adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 seconds / Decrease/increase volume * Decrease/increase volume 9 Decrease/increase volume 0 Decrease/increase volume ( Adjust audio balance in favor of left channel ) Adjust audio balance in favor of right channel M Mute sound _ (MPEG-TS, AVI and libavformat only) Cycle through the available video tracks # (DVD, Blu-ray, MPEG, Matroska, AVI and libavformat only) Cycle through the available audio tracks Tab (MPEG-TS and libavformat only) Cycle through the available programs F Toggle fullscreen (also see -fs) Shift + T Toggle stay-on-top (also see -ontop) W Decrease pan-and-scan range E Increase pan-and-scan range O Toggle OSD states: none / seek / seek + timer / seek + timer + total time D Toggle frame dropping states: none / skip display / skip decoding (see -framedrop and -hardframedrop) V Toggle subtitle visibility J Cycle through the available subtitles Shift + J Cycle through the available subtitles Y Step forward/backward in the subtitle list G Step forward/backward in the subtitle list Shift + F Toggle displaying "forced subtitles" A Toggle subtitle alignment: top / middle / bottom X Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds Z Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds C (-capture only) Start/stop capturing the primary stream R Move subtitles up/down T Move subtitles up/down I (-edlout mode only) Set start or end of an EDL skip and write it out to the given file S (-vf screenshot only) Take a screenshot Shift + S (-vf screenshot only) Start/stop taking screenshots Shift + I Show filename on the OSD Shift + P Show progression bar, elapsed time and total duration on the OSD ! Seek to the beginning of the previous/next chapter @ Seek to the beginning of the previous/next chapter Shift + D (-vo xvmc, -vo vdpau, -vf yadif, -vf kerndeint only) Activate/deactivate deinterlacer Shift + A Cycle through the available DVD angles When using a hardware accelerated video output ---------------------------------------------- (The following keys are valid only when using a hardware accelerated video output (xv, (x)vidix, (x)mga, etc), the software equalizer (-vf eq or -vf eq2) or hue filter (-vf hue)) 1 Adjust contrast 2 Adjust contrast 3 Adjust brightness 4 Adjust brightness 5 Adjust hue 6 Adjust hue 7 Adjust saturation 8 Adjust saturation When using Quartz or Corevideo driver ------------------------------------- (The following keys are valid only when using the quartz or corevideo video output driver) Cmd + 0 Resize movie window to half its original size Cmd + 1 Resize movie window to its original size Cmd + 2 Resize movie window to double its original size Cmd + F Toggle fullscreen (also see -fs) Cmd + [ Set movie window alpha Cmd + ] Set movie window alpha When using sdl video output driver ---------------------------------- (The following keys are valid only when using the sdl video output driver. C Cycle through available fullscreen modes N Restore original mode Multimedia keys --------------- (The following keys are valid if you have a keyboard with multimedia keys) Pause Pause Stop Stop playing and quit Previous Seek backward 1 minute Next Seek forward 1 minute Compiled with TV or DVB input support ------------------------------------- (The following keys are only valid if you compiled with TV or DVB input support and will take precedence over the keys defined above) H Select previous channel K Select next channel N Change norm U Change channel list Compiled with dvdnav support ---------------------------- (The following keys are only valid if you compiled with dvdnav support: They are used to navigate the menus) keypad 2    Select button down keypad 4    Select button left keypad 6    Select button right keypad 5    Return to main menu keypad 7    Return to nearest menu (the order of preference is: chapter->title->root) Num Enter Confirm choice Teletext -------- (The following keys are used for controlling TV teletext. The data may come from either an analog TV source or an MPEG transport stream) Shift + X Switch teletext on/off Shift + Q Go to next/prev teletext page Shift + W Go to next/prev teletext page Mouse ----- MouseButton3 Seek backward/forward 1 minute mousebutton4 Seek backward/forward 1 minute mousebutton5 Decrease/increase volume MouseButton6 Decrease/increase volume Joystick -------- Left arrow / Right arrow Seek backward/forward 10 seconds Up arrow and down Seek forward/backward 1 minute JoystickButton1 Pause JoystickButton2 Toggle OSD states: none / seek / seek + timer / seek + timer + total time JoystickButton3 Decrease/increase volume JoystickButton4 Decrease/increase volume Last modified on (UTC): Monday, May 18, 2020 Defkey © All rights reserved.