Top 50 Media Player Classic Shortcut Keys (Excel-PDF)

Windows media player is the default media player of the windows operating system.

Features of Windows Media Player

  • You can create a playlist of your favorite songs. You can create a new playlist by clicking on create playlist option. You can give the name of the playlist. To add songs to the playlist you can first select the songs and open them in the Windows Media Player, select the song, and click on the additional playlist option now a playlist name you have created will appear just select it and click on Ok, songs will be added to your playlist.
  • When we open the Windows Media Player there is an option at the top left corner of the Window is “Library”. The library option opens the files that are available in the C drive of the computer.
  •  An important thing that you might have not noticed is that you can see even the images saved in the C drive picture folder. You can run these images like the slide show. With the help of the pause and play button, you can control the slideshow.
  • The various files in the media player have divided into various formats and the windows media player segregates all the files as per their type. While clicking on the music file you will find all the files in the C drive of your PC, as you will click on the videos you will be able to see the video files in the C drive of your PC.
  •  The music option gives you one more facility, you can categorize the music files according to artist, album, all music, genre, year, rating, contributing artist, composer, parental rating, online store, and folder. So, whatever is your mood or taste. The Windows Media Players give you customized selection choices according to whatever you wish to listen to.

There can be the possibility that you are not saving your media files in C Drive. So will media players not help you in your entertainment? No, it’s not like that. You just need to go on organize option at the top left corner, select the option manage libraries, and select the option what you want to manage- music, videos, image, or Recorded TV. After selecting any of the options a dialog box will open. As you will click on the add button. You need to select the folders where you are keeping your media files. Further, you have to click on ok. The media player will start retrieving the files from the folder you have added in the Windows Media Player.

From this article we will learn some shortcut keys about Media player which stands for Media Player Classic Home Cinema, it is a great lightweight video player that supports almost all video formats and codecs, to check out all the keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys present in the MPC HC ( Media Player Classic Home Cinema), For your future reference you can even download the Shortcuts in Excel or PDF format.

Media Player Classic Shortcut Keys List

MPC shortcuts can re redefined in View \Options\Player\Keys:

Shortcuts Action
Ctrl + Q Quick Open File
Ctrl + 0 Open File
Ctrl + D Open DVD/BD
Ctrl + V Open Device
Ctrl + E Reopen File
Alt + I Save Image
F5 Save Image (auto)
Ctrl + L Load Subtitle
Ctrl + S Save Subtitle
Ctrl + C Close
Shift + F10 Properties
Alt + X Exit Play/Pause Space
Ctrl 4+ Right Arrow Frame-step
Ctrl 4+ Left Arrow Frame-step back
Ctrl + 6 Go To
Ctrl + Up Arrow Increase Rate
Ctrl + Down Arrow Decrease Rate
Ctrl + R Reset Rate
Add Audio Delay +10 ms
Sub Audio Delay -10 ms
Right Arrow Jump Forward (medium)
Left Arrow Jump Backward (medium)
Shift + Right Arrow Jump Forward (key’frame)
Shift + Left Arrow Jump Backward (keyframe)
Home Jump to Beginning
Down Next Page
Up Previous Page
Ctrl + Page Down Next File
Ctrl + Page Up Previous File
Shift + T Tuner scan
Shift + Q Quick add favorite
Ctrl + 0 Toggle Caption&Menu
Ctrl + 1 Toggle Seek Bar
Ctrl + 2 Toggle Controls
Ctrl + 3 Toggle Information
Ctrl + 4 Toggle Statistics
Ctrl + 5 Toggle Status
Ctrl + 6 Toggle Subresync Bar
Ctrl + 7 Toggle Playlist Bar
Ctrl + 8 Toggle Capture Bar
Ctrl + 9 Toggle Navigation Bar
Alt 4- Enter Fullscreen
F11 Fullscreen (w/o res.change)
Alt + 1 Zoom 50%
Alt + 2 Zoom 100%
Alt + 3 Zoom 200%
Alt + 4 Zoom Auto Fit
Alt + 5 Zoom Auto Fit (Larger Only)
Ctrl + A Always On Top
Num 5 PnS Reset
Num 9 PnS Inc Size
Num 6 PnS Inc Width
Num 8 PnS Inc Height
Num 1 PnS Dec Size
Num 4 PnS Dec Width
Num 2 PnS Dec Height
Ctrl + Num 5 PnS Center
Ctrl + Num 4 PnS Left
Ctrl + Num 6 PnS Right
Ctrl + Num 8 PnS Up
Ctrl + Num 2 PnS Down
Left Ctrl + Num 7 PnS Up/
Ctrl + Num 9 PnS Up/Right
Ctrl + Num 1 PnS Down/Left
Ctrl + Num 3 PnS Down/Right
X+ Alt + Num 8 PnS Rotate
X- Alt + Num 2 PnS Rotate
Y+ Alt + Num 4 PnS Rotate
Y- Alt + Num 6 PnS Rotate
Alt + Num 1 PnS Rotate 24
2- Alt + Num PnS Rotate
Up Arrow Volume Up
Down Arrow Volume Down
Ctrl + M Volume Mute
Alt + T DVD Title Menu
Alt + R DVD Root Menu
Alt 4+ Left Arrow DVD Menu Left
Alt + Right Arrow DVD Menu Right
Alt + Up Arrow DVD Menu Up
Alt + Down Arrow DVD Menu Down
0 Options
A Next Audio Track
Shift + A Prev Audio Track
S Next Subtitle Track
Shift + S Prev Subtitle Track
W On/ Off Subtitle
D Download subtitles
Ctrl + T Tearing Test
Ctrl + I OSD: Display Current Time
N OSD: Show File Name
Y Goto Prev Subtitle
U Goto Next Subtitle
Alt + Page Down Shift Subtitle Left
Alt + Page Up Shift Subtitle Right
Ctrl + J OSD: Display Renderer Statistics
Ctrl + Alt + R OSD: Reset Renderer Statistics
V VSync
Ctrl + Alt + V Accurate VSync
Ctrl + Alt + U; Decrease VSync Offset
Ctrl 4- Alt 4- Dr Increase VSync Offset
F1 Subtitle Delay
F2 Subtitle Delay 4

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