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Canubis

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Is there any way in Quicktime Player to jump back/forward 10 or 15 seconds?

Basically I am looking to have these buttons in QuickTime…
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Instead of / besides these:
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Most video players (also the native HTML5 video player in Safari, which I guess uses QuickTime under the hood) have controls next to the Play button to jump a few seconds, while quicktime has these fast forward/backwards buttons which work quite differently (useful in some cases but no when you just want to quickly jump a few steps)…

Actually I could swear there was a version of QuickTime which had like 5 or more main buttons and now it's 3… perhaps there was a special setting or plist entry to enable it but no idea if my mind just made this up… 😅
 
I had the same issue, and I installed VLC. It works well.

Edit: I hurried to answer. VLC provides keyboard shortcuts to jump ahead and back, no buttons.
 
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Apple:
"Skip forward - While playing, swipe two fingers up or right
Skip backward - While playing, swipe two fingers down or left"
https://support.apple.com/guide/quicktime-player/keyboard-shortcuts-and-gestures-qtpa4808515d/mac

Custom shorcuts
"AppleScripts to skip forward 30 seconds or back 10 seconds in either VLC or QuickTime Player"
https://gist.github.com/nicwolff/6067187

Or just use IINA :) https://iina.io/

On the first option, already aware of that but imho that's more for scrubbing a few frames (great for looking for a very specific frame) than quickly jumping a few seconds. So not really a replacement in my view.

IINA I know and use for obscure file formats but really prefer QuickTime for the videos it supports.

Thanks for the AppleScript link though, that looks promising! Any idea how to best "implement" this, ideally I could put this script on a shortcut, but no idea right now how to… ?

Edit: nevermind, I figured this out using the Shortcuts app :)
 
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