Google Video has a neat list of keyboard shortcuts that allow you to do many useful things. Go ahead and test a couple of them on the video above:
- Space bar plays and pauses the movie
- Right arrow skips the video forward 5%
- Left arrow jumps back 5% in the video
- The “M” key toggles muting
- Clicking on the “>>” button skips the video forward 10%
One of the biggest drawbacks about playing videos online has been the lack of intuitive controls; but these shortcuts take care of that. Note: you must click into the playback window to activate these shortcuts.
Can I use keyboard shortcuts to play videos? [Google Video Support]