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13 useful VLC keyboard shortcuts

Frequent VLC user? You're missing out if you haven't memorized these keyboard shortcuts yet.

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If you're like me, you enjoy doing things faster. Using keyboard shortcuts can help you spend less time looking for buttons or menus, and more time enjoying music and videos. So take a moment to become a more efficient by reading over these VLC 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 que

N: next item in media que


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