Hey Albano.
For a long time I used Winamp for playing my music playlist and VLC for playing one off files.
About a year ago I tried Foobar2000 and have been really happy with it, so now I use that instead of Winamp.
Considering I'd been using Winamp for at least 15 years, it is impressive that Foobar2000 got me to switch.
I still use VLC, but just for one off files. As you've noted it doesn't give quite the control you might want.
I do like it for raising the playback speed of podcasts, and because having it associated with media files ensures I never accidentally kill my Foobar2000 playlist.
In VLC for seeking back and forward you can try shift left, shift right, control left, and control right.
Control consistently moves you by about a minute, and shift by about 3 or 4 seconds.
Alt plus the arrow keys usually moves you by 10 seconds, but it is not consistent.
I use NVDA and use object navigation to review the elapsed and total time.
To do that I navigate down then right then down to get to elapsed, then percent complete is right of that and total time is right of that.
Sorry this isn't more helpful since I am using NVDA instead of JAWS.
But if you're just looking for a new media player and it doesn't need to be VLC, consider Foobar2000.
It lets you configure all the shortcut keys, including system wide short cut keys, so for instance I can hit a key combo to make Foobar2000 the active window, regardless of what application I was in.
Then I can set up hot keys for seeking forward and back by amounts that I like, generally 5 seconds and 1 minute depending on what I am listening to.
It is also portable, which is why I tried it in the first place, so I could take it to University computers on a USB drive and play my music with my customized shortcuts without needing to install anything.
All that said, YMMV, just my 2 cents.
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