Video Controller — Pause, Rewind & Hotkeys

Pause, play & rewind any video with a hotkey — YouTube, X, Facebook, Udemy & more. Great for follow-along tutorials. Private & free.

Stop clicking back to your video tab just to hit pause. Video Controller lets you pause, play, and rewind any video with a single keyboard shortcut — from any tab — so you can follow along with tutorials without breaking your flow. Perfect for coding along, cooking from a recipe video, practicing a language, or taking a course: watch a step, pause with a keypress, do the work, then resume — and it even rewinds a few seconds so you catch what you missed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Pause & play from ANY tab — no need to switch back to the video - Rewind-on-resume — jumps back a few seconds when you press play, so you never lose your place - Works while you're typing in another tab or window - Keeps your hands on the keyboard and your focus on your work - Clean, distraction-free, and lightning fast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Global play/pause hotkey (default Alt+P) that controls whatever video is playing - Rewind-on-resume — adjustable from 0 to 30 seconds - Rewind & fast-forward hotkeys (default Alt+, and Alt+.) - Auto-pause when you switch away, auto-resume when you return (optional) - Adjustable playback speed step and quick mute - On-screen confirmation toast (e.g. "▶ Playing −5s") - Optional floating play/pause button on video pages - Per-site enable/disable and import/export of settings - Fully customizable shortcuts via Chrome's shortcuts page ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORKS EVERYWHERE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Works seamlessly across major video platforms and any website that uses standard HTML5 video. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVATE & FREE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - 100% free — no account, no subscription - No analytics, telemetry, or tracking of any kind - No remote code — everything is bundled and runs locally - It only controls the video element — it never reads or sends your page content - Settings sync only through your own Chrome account ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO USE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Install it, open any video, and press Alt+P to pause or play. Adjust the rewind seconds and shortcuts in Settings. That's it — no setup required. A free tool from SEOLust. Learn more at seolust.com.