Here are the 20 most common and most useful keyboard shortcuts for VLC, one of the popular media player available for all OS whether your are using mac, windows or Linux. Some of these keyboard shortcuts could make things really easy for you when it comes to playing videos on VLC.
1. Space Bar — To Play or Pause the Video
2. F — Toggle between full screen mode and window mode on VLC
3. A — Change Aspect ratio
4. C — Change screen crop ratio
5. Z — You can quickly zoom in and out the video
6. Shift + Arrow Right / Shift + Arrow Left — Jump 3 seconds forward / back word
7. Alt + Arrow Right / Alt + Arrow Left — Jump 10 seconds forward / backward
8. Ctrl + Arrow Right / Ctrl + Arrow Left — Jump 1 minute forward / backward
9. Ctr + Arrow UP / Ctrl + Arrow Down — Increase or Decrease Volume
10. M — Mute / Unmute the volume
11. Ctrl + E — Adjust Audio / Video Effects
12. N / P — Play next in list / Play previous in list
13. S — Stop the playback
14. Ctrl + H — Hide / Unhide Controls
15. V — On / off Subtitles
16. B — Cycle between available audio track
17. G / H — Decrease / Increase subtitle delay
18. J / K — Decrease / Increase audio delay
19. T — Show time
20. Ctrl + T — Goto to a specific time in video
