# Video and audio

> Play videos, audio files, voice notes and YouTube links right inside the capture.

- Page: https://resurf.so/guides/video-and-audio
- Section: Browse and read
- Works on: Mac, iPhone, iPad
- Last checked against the app: 2026-10-17
- Play or pause: `Space` on Mac

## Videos

On Mac:

1. Open a video. It starts playing.
2. Press `Space` to play or pause. Use **Back 15 seconds**, **Forward 10 seconds** and the scrubber to move around.
3. Click **Fullscreen** to watch it in its own window.

On iPhone and iPad:

1. Open a video. If the controls are hidden, tap the video to show them.
2. Use **Play** or **Pause**, **Back 15 seconds**, **Forward 10 seconds** and the position bar.
3. Tap **Full screen** to fill the screen.

Video: [Video tiles showing frames as the pointer moves across them, and a video playing in Peek.](https://resurf.so/guides/clips/clip-video.mp4)

There's no playback speed for videos or audio files. Only voice notes have one.

## Voice notes and audio

On Mac:

1. Open an audio file and press play or `Space`. Drag on the waveform to seek.
2. Open a voice note. Use **Back 15s**, **Forward 15s** and `Space` to play or pause.
3. Click the speed pill (**Playback speed**) to change the speed.
4. Switch between **Transcript** and **Notes**. Click a time-coded line in the transcript to jump there.

On iPhone and iPad:

1. Open an audio file. It plays in the system player.
2. Open a voice note. It has the same player as on Mac, with **Back 15 seconds** and **Forward 15 seconds**.

Audio and voice notes don't play in a peek. Open the capture to listen.

## YouTube

On Mac, a YouTube link plays in a player inside the capture, with its transcript underneath. You can select and copy the transcript, but you can't click a line to jump to it.

## Previews in the library

On Mac, hover a video's cover to scrub through its frames. To play it on hover instead, set **Settings → Appearance → Video previews → On hover** to **Play**. Play uses more power on large files.

The play button on a video, audio or voice note cover plays it in place.

## Questions

### Can I speed up a video?

No. Only voice notes have a speed control.

### Space doesn't pause a video in a peek.

In a peek, Space closes the peek. Open the capture, where Space plays and pauses.

## More guides

- Previous: [Write notes](https://resurf.so/guides/notes-and-highlights.md)
- Next: [Comments](https://resurf.so/guides/comments.md)
- [Layouts and sorting](https://resurf.so/guides/layouts.md): Choose how the library shows your captures, how big the tiles are, and what order they come in.
- [Covers and appearance](https://resurf.so/guides/appearance.md): Set the theme, the window color and how cards look, and choose what a link's cover shows.
- [Open and peek](https://resurf.so/guides/peek.md): Open a capture to read it, open it beside the library, or peek at it without leaving the grid.
- [Move between captures and zoom](https://resurf.so/guides/next-and-previous.md): Step to the next or previous capture without going back to the library, and zoom the whole window on Mac.
- [Read links](https://resurf.so/guides/reader.md): A saved link opens as the live page, and the reader shows the article as clean text at a size you like.
- [PDFs and highlights](https://resurf.so/guides/pdfs.md): Read PDFs on every device, and on Mac, find words, highlight passages and comment on them.
- [Write notes](https://resurf.so/guides/notes-and-highlights.md): Write and format notes in a markdown editor, and on Mac, highlight passages and comment on them.
- [Comments](https://resurf.so/guides/comments.md): Every capture has a comment thread in Info, and your highlights from notes and PDFs land there too.
- [Command bar](https://resurf.so/guides/command-bar.md): Search your library and run commands from the keyboard: go somewhere, add a filter, switch the theme or open a setting.
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