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Playback Controls

While a video plays, the controls sit along the bottom and hide themselves after a few seconds of stillness. Any keypress or any movement of the mouse or the gamepad brings them back.

Along the top is the scrub bar with elapsed and total or remaining time.

Control	What it does
Back	Ends playback and returns to the media page
Stop	Stops playback and hands control back to the launching application. Only visible if launched with the --external command line argument
Skip back and forward	Skips through the video ten seconds at a time
Play / Pause	Toggles play/pause during playback
Subtitles	Switch the current subtitle track or turn them off
Soundtracks, 1 and 2	Switch the current soundtrack playing on each output
Volume	Opens the volume panel with each output's mute, volume, and sync controls, plus overall volume and mute
Fullscreen	Toggle fullscreen. Possibly not available when launched from another application, like Kodi.