You can find most of the keyboard shortcuts by taking a look at the menus. Additional hotkeys are defined in the section "Hotkeys" of your VLC preferences.
Some handy key combo's are:
- You can use
␣
(Space) to start/pause the video. - When playing video,
⌘F
enters/exits fullscreen.⎋
also exits fullscreen. - When playing video,
⌘⇧←
or⌘⇧→
, jumps the video backward/forward about a minute. - When playing video,
⌘⌃←
or⌘⌃→
, jumps the video backward/forward about ten seconds. F
- Decrease Audio Delay in millisecondsG
- Increase Audio Delay in millisecondsH
- Decrease Subtitle DelayJ
- Increase Subtitle Delay
Go to Settings > Preferences... > Input / Codecs > Demuxers > AVI > Force index creation
Select "Never fix" Next time a broken AVI file is opened the message should no longer appear.