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1totem(1)                    General Commands Manual                   totem(1)
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NAME

6       GNOME Videos - Movie player
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SYNOPSIS

9       totem [option...] [filenames|URI]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Videos  is  a  movie  player for the GNOME desktop.  Through use of the
13       GStreamer backend many popular file and streaming formats are supported
14       including:  H.264  (AVC)  and H.265 (HEVC) MPEG-4, WebM and AV1, MPEG-2
15       and MPEG-1, as well as legacy videos types: Ogg, AVI,  ASF,  MOV,  WMV,
16       QuickTime, and more.  Playback of DVDs is also possible.
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18       For  additional  documentation  on interactive use of Videos select the
19       Help menu option.  The menus allow access to some features  not  avail‐
20       able through keybindings or command-line options.
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OPTIONS

23       -?, --help
24              Output  a longer help message then quit.  (Any discrepancies be‐
25              tween this man page and the output of totem --help should be re‐
26              ported as a documentation bug.)
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28       --version
29              Output version information then quit.
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31       The  following options command an already-running instance of Videos to
32       do something; they are useful for remote-control scripting.  If  Videos
33       is  not  already  running, these commands will launch a new instance of
34       Videos but will not do anything further.
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36       --play-pause
37              Tell an already-running instance of  Videos  to  toggle  between
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40       --play Tell  an  already-running instance of Videos to play (has no ef‐
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43       --pause
44              Tell an already-running instance of Videos to pause (has no  ef‐
45              fect if already paused)
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47       --next Tell  an  already-running instance of Videos to skip to the next
48              movie or chapter in the playlist.
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50       --previous
51              Tell an already-running instance of Videos to return to the pre‐
52              vious movie or chapter in the playlist.
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54       --seek-fwd
55              Tell  an  already-running instance of Videos to seek forwards 15
56              seconds in the current movie.
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59              Tell an already-running instance of Videos to seek backwards  15
60              seconds in the current movie.
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62       --volume-up
63              Tell  an  already-running instance of Videos to raise the volume
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66       --volume-down
67              Tell an already-running instance of Videos to lower  the  volume
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70       --mute Tell  an  already-running  instance  of Videos to toggle between
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73       --fullscreen
74              Tell an already-running instance of Videos to toggle  fullscreen
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77       --quit Tell an already-running instance of Videos to quit.
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79       --enqueue filename|URI
80              Tell  an  already-running instance of Videos to add a new stream
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83       --replace filename|URI
84              Tell an already-running instance of  Videos  to  play  from  the
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KEYBINDINGS

88       Information  about  keybindings  is  available  once the application is
89       started by typing Ctrl+Question Mark which might require pressing Shift
90       in some keyboard configurations.
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93       FILES  /usr/lib/totem/plugins/
94              The  global plugins directory, which contains all the system-in‐
95              stalled plugins.
96       ~/.local/share/totem/plugins/
97              The user plugins directory, containing plugins available only to
98              that  user.  It is always in the "totem/plugins" subdirectory of
99              your XDG_DATA_HOME directory.
100       ~/.config/totem/state.ini
101              The configuration file for the main window's appearance,  stored
102              in a simple INI format.
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BUGS

105       Videos cannot play files using some proprietary codecs.
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AUTHOR

108       Videos  was written by Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>.  This manual
109       page was written by Andre Lehovich for the Debian Project.
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DISTRIBUTION

112       The   latest   version   of   Videos    may    be    downloaded    from
113       <https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Totem>
114       ⟨https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Totem⟩
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