man mplayer : interactive control

man mplayer : interactive control [ SOURCE ]

MPlayer has a fully configurable, command-driven control layer which allows you to control MPlayer using keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote control ( with LIRC ). See the -input option for ways to customize it.


keyboard control :
Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.
up and down Seek forward/backward 1 minute.
pgup and pgdown Seek forward/backward 10 minutes.
[ and ] Decrease/increase current playback speed by 10%.
{ and } Halve/double current playback speed.
backspace Reset playback speed to normal.
< and > Go backward/forward in the playlist.
ENTER Go forward in the playlist, even over the end.
HOME and END next/previous playtree entry in the parent list
INS and DEL ( ASX playlist only ) next/previous alternative source.
p / SPACE Pause ( 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.
U Stop playing ( and quit if -idle is not used ).
+ and - Adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
/ and * Decrease/increase volume.
9 and 0 Decrease/increase volume.
( and ) Adjust audio balance in favor of left/right channel.
m Mute sound.
_ ( MPEG-TS, AVI and libavformat only ) Cycle through the available video tracks.
# ( DVD, Blu-ray, MPEG, Matroska, AVI and libavformat only ) Cycle through the available audio tracks.
TAB ( MPEG-TS and libavformat only ) Cycle through the available programs.
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.
j Cycle through the available subtitles.
y and g Step forward/backward in the subtitle list.
F Toggle displaying "forced subtitles".
a Toggle subtitle alignment : top / middle / bottom.
x and z Adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 seconds.
r and t Move subtitles up/down.
i ( -edlout mode only ) Set start or end of an EDL skip and write it out to the given file.
s ( -vf screenshot only ) Take a screenshot.
S Start/stop taking screenshots.
I Show filename on the OSD.
P Show progression bar, elapsed time and total duration on the OSD.
! and @ Seek to the beginning of the previous/next chapter.
D ( -vo xvmc, -vo vdpau, -vf yadif, -vf kerndeint only ) Activate/deactivate deinterlacer.
A Cycle through the available DVD angles.


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.


The following keys are valid only when using the quartz or corevideo video output driver.
command + 0 Resize movie window to half its original size.
command + 1 Resize movie window to its original size.
command + 2 Resize movie window to double its original size.
command + f Toggle fullscreen ( also see -fs ).
command + [ and command + ] Set movie window alpha.


The following keys are valid only when using the sdl video output driver.
c Cycle through available fullscreen modes.
n Restore original mode.


The following keys are valid if you have a keyboard with multimedia keys.
PAUSE Pause.
STOP Stop playing and quit.
PREVIOUS and NEXT Seek backward/forward 1 minute.


The following keys are only valid if GUI support is compiled in and will take precedence over the keys defined above.
ENTER Start playing.
ESC Stop playing.
l Load file.
t Load subtitle.
c Open skin browser.
p Open playlist.
r Open preferences.


The following keys are only valid if you compiled with TV or DVB input support and will take precedence over the keys defined above.
h and k Select previous/next channel.
n Change norm.
u Change channel list.


The following keys are only valid if you compiled with dvdnav support : They are used to navigate the menus.
keypad 8 Select button up.
keypad 2 Select button down.
keypad 4 Select button left.
keypad 6 Select button right.
keypad 5 Return to main menu.
keypad 7 Return to nearest menu ( the order of preference is : chapter->title->root ).
keypad ENTER Confirm choice.


The following keys are only valid if teletext support is enabled during compilation : They are used for controlling TV teletext, whose data may come from either an analog TV source or an MPEG Transport Stream.
X Switch teletext on/off.
Q and W Go to next/prev teletext page.



mouse control :
button 3 and button 4 Seek backward/forward 1 minute.
button 5 and button 6 Decrease/increase volume.


joystick control :
left and right Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.
up and down Seek forward/backward 1 minute.
button 1 Pause.
button 2 Toggle OSD states : none / seek / seek + timer / seek + timer + total time.
button 3 and button 4 Decrease/increase volume.


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