Player and Controls

StreamNook's player handles live streams, VODs, and clips. Controls appear when you move the mouse and fade after a couple of seconds of no activity.

Opening a stream

Click a channel in the sidebar, or use the in-app search to find any Twitch channel. The player loads the stream and chat connects automatically. To leave a stream, press Shift+Q or use the close button.

The control bar

The control bar sits at the bottom of the player.

Control	What it does	Shortcut
Play / Pause	Toggle playback. You can also click the video.	`Space` or `K`
Mute / Unmute	Toggle audio.	`M`
Volume	Adjust volume.	`Up` / `Down`
Audio boost	Toggle the audio compressor and gain. Right-click for the full editor.
Settings (gear)	Quality, playback speed, and the stats panel.
Picture-in-picture	Pop the video into a floating window.	`P`
Fullscreen	Enter or exit fullscreen. You can also double-click the video.	`F`

On VODs and clips you also get a scrub bar to seek. On live streams, use Left and Right to seek backward and forward by 10 seconds.

Quality

Open the gear menu and choose Quality. On live streams you get every resolution the stream offers plus Auto, which adapts to your connection.

Set a default quality in Settings, Player so new streams start where you want.
If your preferred quality is not available on a stream, StreamNook plays the closest match and shows a small note saying what it switched to.

Latency

For live streams you can trade buffer for how close to live you watch, in Settings, Player:

Low Latency Target Mode chooses the overall tradeoff: Balanced, Latency, or Quality.
Live edge gap sets how many seconds behind live you ride. Lower is closer to live but needs a stable connection.
The player gently catches up on its own when it falls behind, and recovers automatically from short stalls.

Tip

Open the gear menu and turn on Stats to see a live readout of how far behind live you are, your resolution, bitrate, dropped frames, and a Go Live button that snaps you back to the edge.

Playback speed

On VODs and clips, use the gear menu's Speed submenu, or Shift+. to speed up and Shift+, to slow down.

Audio boost

Some streams are quiet. The audio boost button adds a compressor and makeup gain on top of the normal volume slider. Right-click the button (or open Settings, Player, Audio Boost) for fine control over threshold, ratio, attack, release, and makeup gain, with a one-click reset to defaults.

On-player buttons

Hover the player to reveal action buttons in the corners. You can turn any of these on or off in Settings, Player, Player Overlay Buttons.

Button	Action	Shortcut
Follow / Unfollow	Follow or unfollow the channel.
Subscribe / Gift	Open the Twitch subscription flow, or gift subs if already subscribed.
Create clip	Clip the recent moment of a live stream or VOD.	`Alt+X`
Clips and VODs	Open the channel's clips and VOD library.
Add to multi-stream	Pull this stream into the multi-view grid.
Reload	Restart the stream and reconnect chat.	`R`
Close	Stop the stream and return home.	`Shift+Q`

When a stream goes offline

If a channel you are watching goes offline, StreamNook can switch you to something else automatically. In Settings, Player, Auto-Switch:

Turn auto-switch on or off.
Choose to switch to the same category or to your followed streams.
Follow raids automatically.
Stay in the channel's offline chat instead of switching.

If the broadcaster has VODs, the latest one can load so you can keep watching while chat stays open.

All player shortcuts

Action	Key
Play / pause	`Space` or `K`
Mute	`M`
Volume up / down	`Up` / `Down`
Seek back / forward 10s	`Left` / `Right`
Fullscreen	`F`
Theater mode	`T`
Picture-in-picture	`P`
Speed up / down	`Shift+.` / `Shift+,`
Create clip	`Alt+X`
Restart stream	`R`
Close stream	`Shift+Q`

Every shortcut is rebindable. See Keyboard shortcuts.

Next: MultiNook

Watch several streams at once.