Our VoD player has a whole range of handy keyboard shortcuts for easy playback controls. They are available on both preview and embed pages. Please refer to here if you are unfamiliar with the key types of a keyboard. The following shortcuts are case insensitive.
Character keys:
Press this key |
To do this |
Spacebar |
Play or pause the video. |
F, Enter (Return) |
Switch between window and fullscreen. |
M |
Mute or unmute the video. |
Slash (/) |
Toggle chapter list (when chapters are enabled and available). |
Comma (,) |
Go to the previous chapter (when chapters are enabled and available). |
Period (.) |
Go to the next chapter (when chapters are enabled and available). |
Left bracket ([) |
Go to the start of the video. |
Right bracket (]) |
Go to the end of the video. |
Backslash (\) |
Go to the middle of the video. |
Digit 1 to 9 |
Go to n/10 of the video. Useful for quickly jump through long videos. It might interest you to know that YouTube has the same feature. |
Navigation keys:
Press this key |
To do this |
Up arrow (↑) |
Volume up (will unmute the video if it were muted). |
Down arrow (↓) |
Volume down (will mute the video when the volume drops to zero). |
Left arrow (←) |
Skip backward 15 seconds (when skipping is enabled). |
Right arrow (→) |
Skip forward 15 seconds (when skipping is enabled). |
Home |
Go to the start of the video. |
End |
Go to the end of the video. |
Page up |
Go to the previous chapter (when chapters are enabled and available). |
Page down |
Go to the next chapter (when chapters are enabled and available). |
Numeric keypad:
Press this key |
To do this |
Digit 0 (Ins) |
Play or pause the video. |
Enter (=) |
Switch between window and fullscreen. |
Multiply (*) |
Mute or unmute the video. |
Digit 8 (↑), Add (+) |
Volume up (will unmute the video if it were muted to start with). |
Digit 2 (↓), Subtract (-) |
Volume down (will mute the video when the volume drops to zero). |
Digit 4 (←) |
Skip backward 15 seconds (when skipping is enabled). |
Digit 6 (→) |
Skip forward 15 seconds (when skipping is enabled). |
Digit 7 (Home) |
Go to the start of the video. |
Digit 1 (End) |
Go to the end of the video. |
Digit 5 |
Go to the middle of the video. |
Divide (/) |
Toggle chapter list (when chapters are enabled and available). |
Digit 9 (PgUp) |
Go to the previous chapter (when chapters are enabled and available). |
Digit 3 (PgDn) |
Go to the next chapter (when chapters are enabled and available). |