Common VLC media player keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X

Earlier we have seen How to install VLC media player in Mac OS X in our last post, so I hope you already have vlc media player installed in your mac.

Using any application/software without keyboard shortcut sometimes becomes painful, image a situation where you have no idea about keyboard shortcuts or the hotkeys, I can bet you would wonder around toolbar and waste quite a useful time of yours doing things that you could have done within seconds with the help of keyboard shortcuts.

Using most frequent/ common vlc media player shortcuts in Mac OS X can increase the productivity many folds. Keyboard shortcuts /hotkeys for vlc media player are same in every mac OS X version i.e. OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.7 Lion etc. Below are the most frequently used vlc keyboard shortcuts for mac os x.

Action	Shortcut
Fullscreen	⌘(Command) + F
Exit Fullscreen	Esc
Play/Pause	Space
Navigation	Shortcuts
Faster	⌘(Command) + =
Slower	⌘(Command) + –
Next	⌘(Command) + (Right Arrow)
Previous	⌘(Command) +(Left Arrow)
Stop	⌘(Command) + .
Position	T
Jump backward by about 3-4 seconds	⌘(Command) + Control + Left Arrow
Jump forward by about 3-4 seconds	⌘(Command) + Control + Right Arrow
Jump backward by about 10 seconds	⌘(Command) + Option + Left Arrow
Jump forward by about 10 seconds	⌘(Command) + Option + Right Arrow
Jump backward by about 1 minute	⌘(Command) + Shift + Left Arrow
Jump forward by about 10 minute	⌘(Command) + Shift + Right Arrow
Volume	Controls
Increase Volume	⌘(Command) + Up Arrow
Decrease Volume	⌘(Command) + Down Arrow

These are few shortcuts for opening media file, setting aspect ration, subtitle and audio delay etc.

Playback	Adjustment
Aspect Ration	A
Crop Screen	C
Decrease Audio delay in ms	F
Increase Audio delay in ms	G
Decrease subtitle delay in ms	H
Increase subtitle delay in ms	J
Open single file	⌘(Command)+ O
Open Advanced file	⌘(Command) + Shift + O