LEFT and RIGHT | Seek backward/forward 5 seconds. Shift+arrow does a
1 second exact seek (see –hr-seek).
UP and DOWN | Seek forward/backward 1 minute. Shift+arrow does a 5
second exact seek (see –hr-seek).
Ctrl+LEFT and Ctrl+RIGHT | Seek to the previous/next subtitle.
Subject to some restrictions and might not always work; see sub-seek
command.
[ and ] | Decrease/increase current playback speed by 10%.
{ and } | Halve/double current playback speed.
BACKSPACE | Reset playback speed to normal.
< and > | Go backward/forward in the playlist.
ENTER | Go forward in the playlist.
p / SPACE | Pause (pressing again unpauses).
. | Step forward. Pressing once will pause, every consecutive press
will play one frame and then go into pause mode again.
, | Step backward. Pressing once will pause, every consecutive press
will play one frame in reverse and then go into pause mode again.
q | Stop playing and quit.
Q | Like q, but store the current playback position. Playing the
same file later will resume at the old playback position if
possible.
/ and * | Decrease/increase volume.
9 and 0 | Decrease/increase volume.
m | Mute sound.
_ | Cycle through the available video tracks.
# | Cycle through the available audio tracks.
f | Toggle fullscreen (see also –fs).
ESC | Exit fullscreen mode.
T | Toggle stay-on-top (see also –ontop).
w and e | Decrease/increase pan-and-scan range.
o (also P) | Show progression bar, elapsed time and total duration
on the OSD.
O | Toggle OSD states between normal and playback
time/duration.
v | Toggle subtitle visibility.
j and J | Cycle through the available subtitles.
x and z | Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
l | Set/clear A-B loop points. See ab-loop command for details.
L | Toggle infinite looping.
Ctrl + and Ctrl - | Adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
u | Switch between applying no style overrides to SSA/ASS subtitles,
and overriding them almost completely with the normal subtitle style.
See –sub-ass-style-override for more info.
V | Toggle subtitle VSFilter aspect compatibility mode. See
–sub-ass-vsfilter-aspect-compat for more info.
r and t | Move subtitles up/down.
s | Take a screenshot.
S | Take a screenshot, without subtitles. (Whether this works
depends on VO driver support.)
Ctrl s | Take a screenshot, as the window shows it (with subtitles,
OSD, and scaled video).
I | Show filename on the OSD.
PGUP and PGDWN | Seek to the beginning of the previous/next chapter.
In most cases, “previous” will actually go to the beginning of the
current chapter; see –chapter-seek-threshold.
Shift+PGUP and Shift+PGDWN | Seek backward or forward by 10 minutes.
(This used to be mapped to PGUP/PGDWN without Shift.)
d | Activate/deactivate deinterlacer.
A | Cycle aspect ratio override.
Keys
that only Work when the Video Output Supports the Option
(The following keys are valid only when using a video output that
supports the corresponding adjustment, or the software equalizer
(–vf=eq).)
1 and 2 | Adjust contrast.
3 and 4 | Adjust brightness.
5 and 6 | Adjust gamma.
7 and 8 | Adjust saturation.
Alt+0 (and command+0 on OSX) | Resize video window to half its
original size.
Alt+1 (and command+1 on OSX) | Resize video window to its original
size.
Alt+2 (and command+2 on OSX) | Resize video window to double its
original size.
command + f (OSX only) | Toggle fullscreen (see also –fs).
command + [ and command + ] (OSX only) | Set video window
alpha.
Keyboards with Multimedia
Keys
(The following keys are valid if you have a keyboard with multimedia
keys.)
PAUSE
Pause.
STOP
Stop playing and quit.
PREVIOUS and NEXT
Seek backward/forward 1 minute.
MPV Compiled with TV
or DVB Input Support
(The following keys are only valid if you compiled with TV or DVB
input support.)
h and k | Select previous/next tv-channel.
H and K | Select previous/next dvb-channel.
Mouse Control
button 3 and button 4 | Seek backward/forward 1 minute.