I have listed the MPlayer's most useful Keyboard Control keys for its users quick references.
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
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.
Decrease/increase volume.
M
Mute sound.
F
Toggle fullscreen (also see -fs).
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.
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.
Move subtitles up/down.
i
Set EDL mark.
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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