IINA Player Keyboard Shortcuts

We watch a tonne of videos now, so it’s good to be efficient with them. Go learn these keyboard shortcuts, you’ll be happier. Not only will they save you time, but they’ll make your viewing experience much more fluid and enjoyable.

Note: We have switched to IINA Player from VLC. This reference documents IINA’s keyboard shortcuts.

Key Notation Reference

Notation Key
M Meta/Command (⌘)
A Alt/Option (⌥)
C Control (^)
S Shift (⇧)
BS Backspace/Delete (⌫)

Playback Controls

  • Space - Cycle Pause
  • ⌫ - Stop
  • → - Seek forward 5s
  • ← - Seek backward 5s
  • → - Next frame
  • ← - Previous frame
  • A-← - Seek to previous subtitle
  • A-→ - Seek to next subtitle

Playback Speed

  • M-[ - Multiply Speed by 0.5x
  • M-] - Multiply Speed by 2.0x
  • M-A-[ - Multiply Speed by 0.9091x
  • M-A-] - Multiply Speed by 1.1x
  • M-\ - Set Speed to 1.0

Chapter Navigation

  • A-S-C - Chapter panel
  • M-> - Chapter +1
  • M-< - Chapter -1

Media Controls

  • S-S - Screenshot
  • S-L - A-B loop
  • A-S-L - Cycle loop in ()
  • A-S-P - Playlist panel
  • M-→ - Next media
  • M-← - Previous media

Window Size

  • M-0 - Set Window scale to 0.5
  • M-1 - Set Window scale to 1
  • M-2 - Set Window scale to 2
  • M-3 - Fit to Screen
  • M– - Smaller Window
  • M-= - Bigger Window

Display Controls

  • C-S-P - Toggle Picture-in-Picture
  • C-S-F - Cycle Fullscreen
  • C-S-T - Cycle Float on top
  • M-S-M - Toggle Music Mode

Volume Controls

  • ↑ - Volume +5
  • ↓ - Volume -5
  • A-↑ - Volume +1
  • A-↓ - Volume -1
  • M-/ - Cycle Mute

Audio Delay

  • ) - Audio delay +0.5
  • ( - Audio delay -0.5
  • } - Audio delay +0.1
  • { - Audio delay -0.1
  • : - Set Audio delay to 0

Subtitle Controls

  • A-S-D - Find online subtitles
  • A-Z - Subtitle delay -0.5
  • A-X - Subtitle delay +0.5
  • A-S-Z - Subtitle delay -0.1
  • A-S-X - Subtitle delay +0.1
  • A-C - Set Subtitle delay to 0
  • ↩ - Set Fullscreen to No
  • ⇥ - Set Fullscreen to Yes
  • Q - Quit

Additional Controls

  • P - Cycle Pause
  • . - Next frame
  • , - Previous frame
  • M - Cycle Mute
  • A-S-F - Seek forward 600s
  • A-S-B - Seek backward 600s
  • A-O - Subtitle scale +0.1
  • A-F - Subtitle scale -0.1
  • R - Subtitle position -1
  • A-R - Subtitle position +1
  • T - Subtitle position +1
  • F - Cycle Fullscreen
  • A-E - Cycle edition

Remote-Style Controls

  • POWER - Quit
  • PLAY - Cycle Pause
  • PAUSE - Cycle Pause
  • PLAYPAUSE - Cycle Pause
  • STOP - Quit
  • FORWARD - Seek forward 60s
  • REWIND - Seek backward 60s
  • NEXT - Next media
  • PREV - Previous media
  • VOLUME_UP - Volume +2
  • VOLUME_DOWN - Volume -2
  • MUTE - Cycle Mute
  • CLOSE_WIN - Quit

Panel Controls

  • A-S-V - Video panel
  • A-S-A - Audio panel
  • A-S-S - Subtitle panel
  • C-S-V - Cycle Video track
  • C-S-S - Cycle Subtitle track
  • C-S-A - Cycle Audio track

Note: These keybindings are for IINA Player. Key combinations may vary depending on your OS and IINA version. 🎥

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