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Olga Trofimova
2,309 PointsKeyboard shortcuts for Treehouse embedded video player on the Web?
I keep switching between my workspace, HTML editor and a course video that I have on playback in a separate window. I tend to do all the frequent tasks by keyboard shortcuts, including refreshing a window, switching between windows and tabs etc. Every time i need to do anything involving playing or pausing a video, I have to switch to mouse control, which totally breaks the flow. I tried some standard shortcuts but none of them worked for me on the player.
Did anyone find any working shortcuts for the Treehouse embedded player?
9 Answers
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Dustin Matlock
33,856 PointsHi Olga, there are a couple of things you can do. Probably the best solution is multiple monitors. Other things you can do would be a browser extension to organize and resize windows, or simply cmd
+ tab
(Mac) to cycle through windows alt
+ tab
(Windows).
For the video player most times spacebar
should work to pause and play the video, and right
and left
arrows to skip forward and backward.
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Olga Trofimova
2,309 Pointsspacebar
and arrows do work. Thank you for you help, Dustin!
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Michael Liquori
8,131 PointsI just discovered by mistake that CTRL+F toggles full-screen mode on the video.
Would like to know if there is one for going back 10 secs? Is this a video player framework or built by Treehouse?
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Dustin Matlock
33,856 PointsThese are all common shortcut keys for most video players. I think Treehouse uses MediaElement.js. It's an HTML5 player with flash fallback, I believe.
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Max Miko
1,670 PointsAre there some shortcut for playing speed?
For me it is usually needed to switcht slower/faster because some points i understand good, but at some i want to listen teacher a bit slower.
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Mert Kahraman
12,118 PointsIn need of the same issue here. I hope they'll introduce a shortcut for that!
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Andrés Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 4,031 PointsYeap I think is a good idea too add shorcuts for speed and subtitles and make easyto see the shortcuts in the video screen witha help button or something
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Jeffrey How
2,615 PointsAny news on shortcut for updating speed?
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Adam Hosman
696 PointsBump.
- Speed shortcut needed!
- Play/pause needed: [space] doesn't work (on macOS 10.12.2, Firefox 60.0.1)
Please implement these, it shouldn't be a problem for you guys.
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Brian Liotti
917 PointsPlease add a video playback shortcut for 10sec forward and backward. See Youtube's Mobile playback. double tap.
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Serge Churkin
3,267 PointsI also feel that I absolutely need space bar to pause the video and arrows up/down for speed change. When I learn I code along and jump between windows - resume video without a additional wrist crunching track pad move would be amazing!