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mpv keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 4/16/2019 on
https://defkey.com/mpv-media-player-shortcuts

mpv is a free and open-source media player software that runs on several
operating systems including Linux, macOS, and Windows. Based on the
MPlayer, the program also has an Android port called mpv-android.

mpv has 59 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



General
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P                       Pause / Playback
F                       Toggle fullscreen
M                       Mute
V                       Toggle subtitles
S                       Take a screenshot
Shift + S               Take a screenshot without subtitles (may or may not work depending on
display driver)
Ctrl + S                Take a scaled screenshot with subtitles and OSD
Alt + S                 Automatically take screenshot of every frame
Q                       Quit, save current position
O                       Show progress
Shift + O               Toggle show progress
Shift + T               Toggle video window on top


Navigation
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Page Up / Down          Next / previous chapter
.                       Next frame
,                       Previous frame
Left arrow / Right arrow Seek 5 seconds
Shift + Left arrow / Right arrow Exact seek 1 seconds (don't show on the OSD)
Up arrow / Down arrow   Seek 60 seconds
Shift + Up arrow / Down arrow Exact seek 5 seconds (don't show on the OSD)
Shift + Page Up / Down  Seek 600 seconds


Playback
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Ctrl + +                Increase audio delay
Ctrl + -                Decrease audio delay
[                       Decrease speed
]                       Increase speed
M                       Mute / unmute audio
Shift + A               Cycle aspect ratio ("16:9", "4:3", "2.35:1", "-1")
1                       Decrease contrast
2                       Increase contrast
3                       Decrease brightness
4                       Increase brightness
5                       Decrease gamma
6                       Increase gamma
7                       Decrease saturation
8                       Increase saturation
9                       Decrease audio volume
0                       Increase audio volume
W                       Zoom out
E                       Zoom in


Subtitles
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V                       Show / hide subtitles
J                       Next subtitle
Shift + J               Previous subtitle
Z                       Increase subtitle delay
X                       Decrease subitle delay
R                       Move subtitles up
T                       Move subitles down
Ctrl + Left arrow / Right arrow Skip to previous / next subtitle
Ctrl + Shift + Left arrow Adjust timing to previous subtitle
Ctrl + Shift + Right arrow Adjust timing to next subtitle


Move video rectangle
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Alt + Left arrow        Add video pan-x 0.1
Alt + Right arrow       Add video pan-x -0.1
Alt + Up arrow          Add video pan-y 0.1
Alt + Down arrow        Add video pan-y -0.1
Alt + Backspace         Reset video zoom, video pan-x and video pan-y to 0


Mouse
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Wheel up                Seek 10 seconds
Wheel down              Seek -10 seconds
Double click            Toggle fullscreen
Right click             Toggle pause


Misc
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Ctrl + H                Cycle hardware decoding
Ctrl + C                Quit

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