Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Menus
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The following table outlines every option in the menus of VLC Media Player:
| Menu | Option | Description | Hotkey |
| Media | Open File | Select this option to open a media file and play it. | Ctrl+O |
| Advanced Open File | Select this option to open files through a folder, disc, network or a capture device. | Ctrl+Shift+O | |
| Open Folder | Select this option to open a folder with multiple media files and play them in order. | Ctrl+F | |
| Open Disc | Select this option to open discs with different video format. | Ctrl+D | |
| Open Network Stream | Select this option to receive media files from Internet and play them. | Ctrl+N | |
| Open Capture Device | Select this option to receive media files from capture devices such as camcorder, webcam and so on. | Ctrl+C | |
| Open Location from clipboard | Select this option to enter the URL or path to the media you want to play. | Ctrl+V | |
| Recent Media | Scroll over this option to view recently played media. | - | |
| Save Playlist to File | Select this option to save the playlist to a file. | Ctrl+Y | |
| Convert/Save | Select this option to convert media files to different media file formats. | Ctrl+R | |
| Streaming | Select this option to send media files through network and play them live. | Ctrl+S | |
| Quit | Select this option to quit the application. | Ctrl+Q | |
| Playback | Bookmarks | Select this option to bookmark the media file. | - |
| Title | Select this option to randomly access a particular movie in a DVD. | - | |
| Chapter | Select this option to randomly access a particular chapter in a movie. | - | |
| Navigation | Select this option to navigate to different titles and their corresponding chapters. | - | |
| Program | To be added | - | |
| Jump to Specific Time | Select this option to move the track slider to a specific frame of the video or audio file. The media file starts playing from that instance. | Ctrl+T | |
| Audio | Audio Track | Select this option to disable or enable an audio track. | - |
| Audio Channel | Select this option to select a audio channel. | - | |
| Audio Device | Select this option to convert the stereo audio files to mono and vice-versa. | - | |
| Visualization | Select this option to display splashes of colour and geometric shapes while listening to an audio file. | - | |
| Video | Video Track | Select this option to disable or enable a video track. | - |
| Subtitles Track | Select this option to load subtitle files for video files requiring subtitles. | - | |
| Full Screen | Select this option to view the media file in the entire screen. | - | |
| Always On Top | Select this option to display the application always on top when other applications or files are open. | - | |
| DirectX wall paper | Select this option to make the video which is being displayed to become the wall paper. | - | |
| Snapshot | Select this option to capture snapshots of video being displayed. | - | |
| Zoom | Select this option to zoom in or zoom out a video track. | - | |
| Scale | Select this option to resize the video to an appropriate size. | - | |
| Aspect Ratio | Select this option to adjust the width to height ratio of the video. | - | |
| Crop | Select this option to crop the edges of a video track. | - | |
| Deinterlace | Select this option to convert interlaced video signals into non-interlaced form. | - | |
| Deinterlace mode | Select this option to choose the type of deinterlacing. | - | |
| Post processing | Select this option to disable post processing or the processing number. | - | |
| Tools | Effects and Filters | Select this option to adjust the audio and video effects. | Ctrl+E |
| Track Synchronization | Select this option to display a menu of options to have audio and video effects, and synchronization of the audio and video media. | - | |
| Media Information | Select this option to view information regarding the media file being played. | Ctrl+I | |
| Codec Information | Select this option to view codec information of the media file being played. | Ctrl+J | |
| Bookmarks | Select this option to bookmark the media file. | Ctrl+B | |
| VLM Configuration | To be added | Ctrl+W | |
| Program Guide | Select this option to view the program schedule | - | |
| Messages | Select this option to view the messages and the modules tree. | Ctrl+M | |
| Plugins and extension | Select this option to view plugins and extension installed on VLC. | Ctrl+M | |
| Preferences | Select this option to give preferred settings to audio, video, subtitles, codecs and hotkeys. | Ctrl+P | |
| View | Playlist | Select this option to view the playlist. | Ctrl+L |
| Add Interface | Select this option to change the interface. | - | |
| Minimal View | Select this option to enable minimal view (removes track list and basic control buttons). | Ctrl+H | |
| Fullscreen Interface | Select this option to toggle fullscreen mode. | F11 | |
| Advanced Controls | Select this option to toggle advance controls below the tracklist. | - | |
| Docked Playlist | To be added | Ctrl+W | |
| Customize Interface | Select this option to adjust the interface. | - |