MPlayer - The Movie Player (http://www.mplayerhq.hu)

I have listed the MPlayer's most useful Keyboard Control keys for its users quick references.

General control

<- 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.

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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.

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), or the software equalizer filter (-vf eq or -vf eq2).

1 and 2 Adjust contrast.

3 and 4 Adjust brightness.

5 and 6 Adjust hue.

7 and 8 Adjust saturation

Following is the default input.conf file which is MPlayer input control file to redefine default keyboard/joystick/mouse/LIRC bindings, or to add new ones according to users choice. Free as in free choice :)

This file should be placed in the $HOME/.mplayer directory.

RIGHT seek +10
LEFT seek -10
DOWN seek -60
UP seek +60
PGUP seek 600
PGDWN seek -600
- audio_delay 0.100
+ audio_delay -0.100
q quit
ESC quit
ENTER pt_step 1 1
p pause
SPACE pause
HOME pt_up_step 1
END pt_up_step -1
> pt_step 1
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