VLC Player keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet

Printable cheat sheet covering all 104 VLC Player 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.

All shortcuts

  • F — Fullscreen
  • Escape — Leave fullscreen
  • Space — Play/Pause
  • BracketRight — Pause only
  • BracketLeft — Play only
  • Minus — Slower
  • Equal — Normal rate
  • N — Next
  • P — Previous
  • S — Stop
  • T — Position
  • Shift+ArrowLeft — Very short backwards jump
  • Shift+ArrowRight — Very short forwards jump
  • Alt+ArrowLeft — Short backwards jump
  • Alt+ArrowRight — Short forwards jump
  • Ctrl+ArrowLeft — Medium backwards jump
  • Ctrl+ArrowRight — Medium forwards jump
  • Ctrl+Alt+ArrowLeft — Long backwards jump
  • Ctrl+Alt+ArrowRight — Long forwards jump
  • E — Next frame
  • Enter — Activate
  • ArrowUp — Navigate up
  • ArrowDown — Navigate down
  • ArrowLeft — Navigate left
  • ArrowRight — Navigate right
  • Shift+M — Go to the DVD menu
  • Shift+O — Select previous DVD title
  • Shift+B — Select next DVD title
  • Shift+P — Select previous DVD chapter
  • Shift+N — Select next DVD chapter
  • Ctrl+Q — Quit
  • Ctrl+ArrowUp — Volume up
  • Ctrl+ArrowDown — Volume down
  • M — Mute
  • H — Subtitle delay up
  • G — Subtitle delay down
  • K — Audio delay up
  • J — Audio delay down
  • B — Cycle audio track
  • Shift+A — Cycle through audio devices
  • V — Cycle subtitle track
  • A — Cycle source aspect ratio
  • C — Cycle video crop
  • O — Toggle autoscaling
  • Alt+O — Increase scale factor
  • Shift+Alt+O — Decrease scale factor
  • D — Cycle deinterlace modes
  • I — Show interface
  • Shift+I — Hide interface
  • Shift+S — Take video snapshot
  • Shift+G — Go back in browsing history
  • Shift+H — Go forward in browsing history
  • Shift+R — Record
  • Shift+D — Dump
  • Z — Zoom
  • Shift+Z — Un-Zoom
  • W — Toggle wallpaper mode
  • Shift+Alt+M — Display OSD menu on top
  • Ctrl+Alt+M — Do not display OSD menu
  • Shift+Alt+ArrowRight — Highlight widget on the right
  • Shift+Alt+ArrowLeft — Highlight widget on the left
  • Shift+Alt+ArrowUp — Highlight widget on top
  • Shift+Alt+ArrowDown — Highlight widget on bottom
  • Shift+Alt+Enter — Select current widget
  • Alt+R — Crop one pixel from the top
  • Shift+Alt+R — Uncrop one pixel from the top
  • Alt+D — Crop one pixel from the left
  • Shift+Alt+D — Uncrop one pixel from the left
  • Alt+C — Crop one pixel from the bottom
  • Shift+Alt+C — Uncrop one pixel from the bottom
  • Alt+F — Crop one pixel from the right
  • Shift+Alt+F — Uncrop one pixel from the right
  • R — Random
  • L — Normal/Repeat/Loop
  • Ctrl+1 — 1:4 Quarter
  • Ctrl+2 — 1:2 Half
  • Ctrl+3 — 1:1 Original
  • Ctrl+4 — 2:1 Double
  • 3 — Very short jump length (integer)
  • Ctrl+O — Open Single file(s)
  • Ctrl+T — Goto
  • Ctrl+D — Open disc menu
  • Ctrl+F — Open folder (browse folder menu)
  • Ctrl+R — Advanced open file
  • Ctrl+H — Hide / unhide controls
  • Ctrl+P — Prefer­ences/ interface settings
  • Ctrl+E — Adjust­ments and audio/­video effects
  • Ctrl+B — Edit bookmarks
  • Ctrl+M — Open messages
  • Ctrl+N — Open network
  • Ctrl+C — Open capture device
  • Ctrl+L — Open playlist
  • Ctrl+Y — Save playlist
  • Ctrl+I — Media inform­ation
  • Alt+A — Open audio menu
  • Alt+H — Open help menu
  • Alt+M — Open media menu
  • Alt+P — Open playlist menu
  • Alt+T — Open tool menu
  • Alt+V — Open video menu
  • Alt+L — Open playback menu
  • F1 — Show Help
  • F11 — Window full-s­creen (not equal to pressing F)
  • Alt+F4 — Quit VLC

Other Audio & Music apps

  • Ableton Live shortcuts
  • Adobe Audition shortcuts
  • Apple Music shortcuts
  • Audacity shortcuts
  • Bitwig Studio shortcuts
  • Cubase shortcuts
  • FL Studio shortcuts
  • Logic Pro shortcuts
  • Pro Tools shortcuts
  • REAPER shortcuts

Related pages

  • VLC Player shortcuts
  • VLC Player cheat sheet
  • Learn VLC Player shortcuts
  • All Audio & Music apps