| Key | Actions (native vdr): |
| M | activates menu |
| Return | activate selected item |
| Backspace | goes to previous menu |
| Cursor-Up | moves selection up | resumes a replay |
| Cursor-Down | moves selection down | pauses a replay |
| Cursor-Left | toggles rewind in replay, slow|fast depending on Pause|Play |
| Cursor-Right | toggles forward in replay, slow|fast depending on Pause|Play |
| Numeric Keys 0-9 | Direct channels input |
| F1,F2,F3,F4 | Funktion key as shown in OSD-Menu |
| Key | Additonal Actions of Kvdr: |
| J | Space | Grabs a jpg-image |
| P | Grabs a pnm-image |
| R | Single-Click instant Recording |
| O | Toggels the overlay On|Off |
| C | Opens the configuration dialog |
| Q | Quits kvdr without disturbing vdr |
| Grey-Return | Mute On|Off |
| +|- | Volume Down|Up |
| CTRL -|+ | Rear-Volume Down|Up |
| H | Shows HTML-Help |
| Pg-Up/Pg-Down | Emulate page up/down in vdr with cursor up/down |
| Z | Zaps to next video device (0..3) |
| X | Displays up to 4 videos at once |
| V | Switches to Xv-mode |
| D | Toggles deinterlacing in Xv-mode |
| I | Toggles Picture-in-Picture-Mode during Multimode (X) |
| E | Exchanges the 2 videos in Picture-in-Picture-Mode |
| S | Zap's the video-device of the Picture-in-Picture |
| Key | Accelerators of Kvdr Configuration dialog: |
| CTRL+C | ESC | Cancels the configurations |
| CTRL+A | Apply's the configurations |
| CTRL+S | Apply's and stores the configurations |