- <- and ->: Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.
- up and down: Seek backward/forward 1 minute.
- pgup and pgdown: Seek backward/forward 10 minutes.
- [and]: Decreases/increases current playback speed by 10%.
- { and }: Halves/doubles current playback speed.
- Backspace: Reset playback speed to normal.
- < and >: backward/forward in playlist
- HOME and END: next/previous playtree entry in the parent list
- INS and DEL: next/previous alternative source (ASX playlist only)
- p / SPACE: Pause movie (pressing again unpauses).
- .: Step forward. Pressing once will pause movie, every consecutive press will play one frame and then go into pause mode again (any other key unpauses).
- q / ESC: Stop playing and quit.
- + and -: Adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
- / and *: Decrease/increase volume.
- 9 and 0: Decrease/increase volume.
- m: Mute sound.
- # : Cycle through the available audio tracks.
- f: Toggle fullscreen (also see -fs).
- T: Toggle stay-on-top (also see -ontop).
- w and e: Decrease/increase pan-and-scan range.
- o: Toggle OSD states: none / seek / seek + timer / seek + timer + total time.
- d: Toggle frame dropping states: none / skip display / skip decoding (see -framedrop and -hardframedrop).
- v: Toggle subtitle visibility.
- b / j: Cycle through the available subtitles.
- F: Toggle displaying "forced subtitles".
- a: Toggle subtitle aligment: top/middle/bottom.
- z and x: Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
- r and t: Move subtitles up/down.
- i: Set EDL mark.
The following keys are valid only when using a hardware accelerated video output (xv, (x)vidix, (x)mga, etc), the software equalizer (-vf eq or -vf eq2) or hue filter (-vf hue).
- 1 and 2: Adjust contrast.
- 3 and 4: Adjust brightness.
- 5 and 6: Adjust hue.
- 7 and 8: Adjust saturation.