80+ VLC shortcut keys (updated) – Pro tricks

The VLC media player is one of the most famous and used software for playing songs, videos and streaming videos. It is widely used for its features and shortcuts keys for operating. Most of its users do not know about its shortcut keys. They only know basic VLC shortcut keys like spacebar to stop and others. In this post, you are also going to learn how to change VLC media player shortcut keys.

VLC Media Player

For those who don’t know what is a VLC media player, It is a software for windows to play media like videos, audios, and streaming on your PC screen. It is one of the most trustful and featured software which you can download from Here for free.

Fun Fact – You can even download YouTube videos using VLC for free. How??

VLC shortcut Keys

Vlc media player have some default shortcut keys which can be used to operate it. You can even customize these shortcut keys according to your convenience. It will be discussed in the last of the post.

Default Shortcut Keys are :

Shortcut Name	Shortcut Key
Fullscreen	f
Exit fullscreen	Esc
Pause only	Browser stop
Play only	Browser refresh
Faster	+
Slower	-
Normal Rate	=
Faster (fine)	]
Slower (fine)	[
Next	n
Previous	p
Stop	s
Position	t
Very short backwards jump	Shift+Left
Very short forward jump	Shift+Right
Short backwards jump	Alt+Left
Short forward jump	Alt+Right
Medium backwards jump	Ctrl+Left
Medium forward jump	Ctrl+Right
Long backwards jump	Ctrl+Alt+Left
Long forward jump	Ctrl+Alt+Right
Next frame	e
Activate	Enter
Navigate Up	Up arrow
Navigate down	down arrow
Navigate left	left arrow
Navigate right	right arrow
Go to the DVD menu	Shift+m
Select previous DVD title	Shift+o
Select next DVD title	Shift+b
Select prev DVD chapter	Shift+p
Select next DVD chapter	Shift+n
Quit	Ctrl+q
Volume up	Ctrl+Up
Volume down	Ctrl+Down
Mute	m
Subtitle delay up	h
Subtitle delay down	g
Subtitle sync / bookmark audio timestamp	Shift+h
Subtitle sync / bookmark subtitle timestamp	Shift+j
Subtitle sync / synchronise audio & subtitle timestamps	Shift+k
Subtitle sync / reset audio & subtitle synchronization	Ctrl+Shift+k
Audio delay up	k
Audio delay down	j
Cycle audio track	b
Cycle through audio devices	Shift+a
Cycle subtitle track	v
Toggle subtitles	Shift+v
Cycle next program Service ID	x
Cycle previous program Service ID	Shift+x
Cycle source aspect ratio	a
Cycle video crop	c
Toggle autoscaling	o
Increase scale factor	Alt+o
Decrease scale factor	Alt+Shift+o
Toggle deinterlacing	d
Cycle deinterlace modes	Shift+d
Show controller in fullscreen	i
Context menu	Menu
Take video snapshot	Shift+s
Record	Shift+r
Zoom	z
Un-Zoom	Shift+z
Toggle wallpaper mode in video output	w
Crop one pixel from the top of the video	Alt+r
Uncrop one pixel from the top of the video	Alt+Shift+r
Crop one pixel from the left of the video	Alt+d
Uncrop one pixel from the left of the video	Alt+Shift+d
Crop one pixel from the bottom of the video	Alt+c
Uncrop one pixel from the bottom of the video	Alt+Shift+c
Crop one pixel from the right of the video	Alt+f
Uncrop one pixel from the right of the video	Alt+Shift+f
Random	r
Normal/Loop/Repeat	l
1:4 Quarter	Alt+1
1:2 Half	Alt+2
1:1 Original	Alt+3
2:1 Double	Alt+4
*Set playlist bookmark 1	Ctrl+1
*Set playlist bookmark 2	Ctrl+F2
*Play playlist bookmark 1	F1
*Play playlist bookmark 2	F2
Clear the playlist	Ctrl+w

**In the above table, there are stars on four shortcuts. It is to tell that you can even :

• Set playlist bookmark 3, 4, 5……10 with Ctrl+”respective number of function key”.
• play playlist bookmark 3, 4, 5…….10 with “respective number of function key”.

After learning all these shortcut tricks you can operate VLC like a pro.

How to change default VLC Shortcut Keys?

If you are having any kind of problem regarding learning these shortcut keys then you can set up your own shortcut keys quite easily. Here is the procedure:

• First, search for the VLC Media Player. You can do so by searching “VLC” in the window.
• Then start the application.
• Navigate to “Tools”.
• Then click on “Preferences”. You can directly click “Ctrl+p”.
• Now you can see many icons and options. Click on Hotkeys.
• When you click on it, a list of all shortcut keys will appear on your screen. These are the default shortcut keys for VLC Media Player.
• Double click on any shortcut key to change it.
• Then, press the new shortcut keys and save the settings.
• You can always switch back to default shortcuts by clicking on “Reset Preferences”.

Yes, It is that easy.

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