YouTube shortcuts

YouTube shortcuts

The following lists represents the currently supported shortcuts for the YouTube player.

• Local shortcuts can only be used when the player is selected. These shortcuts can be used globally only if the user enables the Player shortcuts always active feature
• Global shortcuts can be used from anywhere in the YouTube page except when the user has an input area selected (reply area, search area, etc.)
• NA not available

Local shortcuts

Keys QWERTY	AZERTY	Function
,		Skip one frame forward (Video must be paused)
.	;	Skip one frame backwards (Video must be paused)
c		Toggle subtitles/CC
b		Change subtitles/CC background
o		Change subtitles/CC text opacity
w		Change subtitles/CC window opacity
= or +		Increase subtitles/CC text size
-	NA	Decrease subtitles/CC text size
0 to 9	& to à	Skip to X0% of the video (X is a number from 0 to 9)
Spacebar		Play / pause video
Home		Skip to start of video
End		Skip to end of video
Left arrow		Skip behind 5s
Right arrow		Skip ahead 5s
Up arrow		Increase volume by 5%
Down arrow		Decrease volume by 5%

Global shortcuts

Keys QWERTY	AZERTY	Function
f		Enter/exit fullscreen
j		Skip behind 10s
l		Skip ahead 10s
k		Play / pause video
m		Mute / unmute video
Esc		Exit fullscreen
Shift + ,		Reduce playback rate by 0.25
Shift + .	Shift + ;	Increase playback rate by 0.25
Shift + p		Load previous video
Shift + n		Load next video

With time some of these shortcuts might become deprecated and others added, if such is the case with any you might find (missing or non functioning) please let me know so that I can update the lists accordingly.