Take control of your videos

Hello and welcome back!

In this post I would like to share with you some useful shortcuts and other controls you can use with Nseries devices to control playback of the RealPlayer.

Keep in mind that when you use Video Center or the Gallery to play videos then RealPlayer will be used also. In some streaming cases also RealPlayer is used so these shortcuts should work.

I'll look at the Flash Player in a separate post. I haven't been very successful with it so I need to spend more time with it before I can make any intelligent comments :)

Ok, now on to the shortcuts and other tips.

1. If your phone has dedicated player controls
1. Press Play to play and pause playback
2. Press Skip forward or Rewind to jump to the end or begining of the current video
3. Press Stop to stop. TIP: Use this to re-start at this point when in Video Center
4. Press AND hold Skip Forward or Rewind to search within a video. TIP: Keep an eye on the timer, as you keep pressed longer the timer will accelerate helping you search within long video files.
5. Use the volume control to increase or decrease the volume. In many cases you can also use the rocker or joystick up or down (depending on the orientation) to act as volume control or as Skip and Rewind keys.

1. If your phone doesn't have dedicated player controls (or they are hidden)
1. Press UP on the directional pad or joystick to increase the Volume
2. Press DOWN on the directional pad or joystick to decrease the Volume
3. Press LEFT on the directional pad or joystick to Rewind or jump to previous Video
4. Press RIGHT on the directional pad or joystick to Skip or jump to next Video
5. Press CENTER select to PLAY/PAUSE

In Some models you can switch between FULL SCREEN (landscape mode) and Partial Screen (portrait), by pressing the 2 or 5 key. In some models this will NOT change the orientation of the video but just remove the menu bar.

In the N95 8GB new V20 software and N82 to change to FULL SCREEN turn auto rotate on and just flip the phone sideways.

Remember that pressing and holding the REW, FFW keys lets you search within a video.

In Video Center for N95 8GB you can skip to next video or previous video by using the REW, FFW keys.

Cluster of controls N95 8GB
Detailed names of Controls

If you have comments or questions feel free to drop me a line or two in the comments.