Google’s streaming video service is full of hidden features. Among these are many keyboard shortcuts that provide advanced player control.
Like many internet users, there’s a good chance that you use YouTube every day. Whether from a smartphone or a computer, Google’s video streaming service contains many hidden features that make it easier to use.
Among these, keyboard shortcuts. While most YouTube users are familiar with the few basic shortcuts for managing video playback, the service actually has many more keyboard shortcuts than you might imagine, with which you can control the playback from the end. fingers.
To use them, the YouTube video playback window must be displayed in the foreground, in the active Windows window.
- Space bar or k: Play / Pause video
- m: mute the sound
- Up / Down arrows: Increase / Decrease volume
- Left / Right Arrows: Backward / Forward 5 seconds
- f: Go to full screen
- i: Show thumbnail player
- t: Show theater mode
- c: Show subtitles when available
- o / w: Change the hue and opacity of the subtitles
- = / -: Increase / Decrease the size of the subtitles
- j / l: Go back / forward 10 seconds
- 0: restart the video at the beginning
- 1 to 9: advance in steps of 10% in the video)
- Home key (or Home, also represented by ↖ or ◤): Play the first few seconds of the video
- End key: Play the last seconds of the video
- , Where . : rewind or advance one frame when the video is paused
- Shift +, or Shift +. : speed up or reduce the video playback speed
- Shift + n / Shift + p: Go to the next video in the playlist / Go back to the previous video in the playlist
- /: open the search box
Enough to become a true virtuoso of the Youtube player!