Keyboard Shortcuts
Note: These shortcuts will only work when the video player is in focus. To move the focus try pressing the spacebar to pause and then play the video.
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Toggle play/pause the video | k or Spacebar |
| Go back 5 seconds | Left arrow |
| Go back 10 seconds | j |
| Go forward 5 seconds | Right arrow |
| Go forward 10 seconds | l |
| Skip to a particular section of the video (e.g., 5 goes to the video midpoint) | Numbers 1-9 (not the keypad numbers) |
| Restart video | 0 (not the keypad number) |
| Go to Full Screen mode | f |
| Exit Full Screen mode | Escape |
| Go to beginning of video | Home |
| Go to end of video | End |
| Increase volume 5% | Up arrow |
| Decrease volume 5% | Down arrow |
| Increase speed | Shift+> (may not work in all browsers) |
| Decrease speed | Shift+< (may not work in all browsers) |
| Move forward 1 frame when video is paused | . (period) |
| Move backward 1 frame when video is paused | , (comma) |
| Mute/unmute video | m |
| Turn captions on/off | c |
| Cycle through options for caption background color | b |
| Move to the previous video in a playlist | Shift+p |
| Move to the next video in a playlist | Shift+n |