How do you get playback controls on youtube.com to show on Mac?

By Gus Pacleb, 31 July, 2015

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Hi
This question may be already answered but I couldn't find any posts on it.
Does anyone know how to get the playback controls to show while on youtube.com? I couldn't figure it out how to do this so any help is appreciated.
Thanks

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By Usman on Sunday, August 9, 2015 - 16:17

They are all on the video playback window. All you need to do is navigate around to locate them. However, I recommend that you disable quicknav so you can use your arrow keys to fast forward and rewind videos.

By Gus Pacleb on Sunday, August 9, 2015 - 16:17

Hi,
I cannot find the playback window. I have looked through the whole page when the video is playing and I still can't find where the controls are to rewind, fast-forward, and play . Does anyone know where I can find these controls?
Thanks

By Justin on Sunday, August 9, 2015 - 16:17

There are no rewind controls. When playing a video, make sure you are either using safari or chrome. Once the vid plays, navigate to the play button, and use J to go backwards a few seconds, K to pause/play the video, L to go forward a few seconds. Also use the arrow keys to move in smaller increments and use the up/down arrows to change the volume of the video and M to mute/unmute the video. The arrows/M only work when you are in the playback area of the page, so the play/paus next, mute, etc controls on the youtube page. Also, if not already done, go to
HTTP://youtube.com/html5 and accept the prompts to make this work.
HTH.

By Gus Pacleb on Sunday, August 9, 2015 - 16:17

I had know idea about the html5 player. Thanks for the info!