diff --git a/src/components/Audios.vue b/src/components/Audios.vue
index fb50b5144..1efb20bc5 100644
--- a/src/components/Audios.vue
+++ b/src/components/Audios.vue
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import '@skjnldsv/vue-plyr/dist/vue-plyr.css'
 
 import logger from '../services/logger.js'
 import { preloadMedia } from '../services/mediaPreloader'
+import { plyrTranslations } from '../utils/plyrTranslations'
 
 const VuePlyr = () => import(/* webpackChunkName: 'plyr' */'@skjnldsv/vue-plyr')
 
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ export default {
 				blankVideo: '/blank.aac',
 				controls: ['play-large', 'play', 'progress', 'current-time', 'mute', 'volume', 'settings'],
 				loadSprite: false,
+				i18n: plyrTranslations,
 			}
 		},
 	},
diff --git a/src/components/Videos.vue b/src/components/Videos.vue
index 2cf1b261d..52e394e68 100644
--- a/src/components/Videos.vue
+++ b/src/components/Videos.vue
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ import logger from '../services/logger.js'
 import { findLivePhotoPeerFromName } from '../utils/livePhotoUtils'
 import { getPreviewIfAny } from '../utils/previewUtils'
 import { preloadMedia } from '../services/mediaPreloader.js'
+import { plyrTranslations } from '../utils/plyrTranslations'
 
 const VuePlyr = () => import(/* webpackChunkName: 'plyr' */'@skjnldsv/vue-plyr')
 
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ export default {
 				blankVideo,
 				controls: ['play-large', 'play', 'progress', 'current-time', 'mute', 'volume', 'captions', 'settings', 'fullscreen'],
 				loadSprite: false,
+				i18n: plyrTranslations,
 				fullscreen: {
 					iosNative: true,
 				},
diff --git a/src/utils/plyrTranslations.ts b/src/utils/plyrTranslations.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d2e0d3429
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/plyrTranslations.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/**
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Nextcloud GmbH and Nextcloud contributors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+import { translate as t } from '@nextcloud/l10n'
+
+/**
+ * Plyr `i18n` option so the player controls and menus
+ * (e.g. the settings/speed dropdown) are translated.
+ *
+ * Plyr ships English defaults only; passing this map makes it use the
+ * Nextcloud translations instead.
+ */
+export const plyrTranslations: Record<string, string> = {
+	restart: t('viewer', 'Restart'),
+	rewind: t('viewer', 'Rewind {seektime}s'),
+	play: t('viewer', 'Play'),
+	pause: t('viewer', 'Pause'),
+	fastForward: t('viewer', 'Forward {seektime}s'),
+	seek: t('viewer', 'Seek'),
+	seekLabel: t('viewer', '{currentTime} of {duration}'),
+	played: t('viewer', 'Played'),
+	buffered: t('viewer', 'Buffered'),
+	currentTime: t('viewer', 'Current time'),
+	duration: t('viewer', 'Duration'),
+	volume: t('viewer', 'Volume'),
+	mute: t('viewer', 'Mute'),
+	unmute: t('viewer', 'Unmute'),
+	enableCaptions: t('viewer', 'Enable captions'),
+	disableCaptions: t('viewer', 'Disable captions'),
+	download: t('viewer', 'Download'),
+	enterFullscreen: t('viewer', 'Enter fullscreen'),
+	exitFullscreen: t('viewer', 'Exit fullscreen'),
+	frameTitle: t('viewer', 'Player for {title}'),
+	captions: t('viewer', 'Captions'),
+	settings: t('viewer', 'Settings'),
+	pip: t('viewer', 'PIP'),
+	menuBack: t('viewer', 'Go back to previous menu'),
+	speed: t('viewer', 'Speed'),
+	normal: t('viewer', 'Normal'),
+	quality: t('viewer', 'Quality'),
+	loop: t('viewer', 'Loop'),
+	start: t('viewer', 'Start'),
+	end: t('viewer', 'End'),
+	all: t('viewer', 'All'),
+	reset: t('viewer', 'Reset'),
+	disabled: t('viewer', 'Disabled'),
+	enabled: t('viewer', 'Enabled'),
+	advertisement: t('viewer', 'Ad'),
+}