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6 Totem - GNOME desktop movie player based on GStreamer
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9 totem [option...] [filenames|URI]
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12 Totem 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: MPEG audio and video (MP3/MPV), Ogg, AVI, ASF, MOV, WMV,
15 QuickTime, and more. Playing of DVD and VCD media is also possible.
16 Although primarily intended as a movie player, Totem can also play many
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19 For additional documentation on interactive use of Totem select the
20 Help menu option. The menus allow access to some features not avail‐
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24 -?, --help
25 Output a longer help message then quit. (Any discrepancies
26 between this man page and the output of totem --help should be
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29 --version
30 Output version information then quit.
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32 The following options command an already-running instance of Totem to
33 do something; they are useful for remote-control scripting. If Totem is
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37 --play-pause
38 Tell an already-running instance of Totem to toggle between play
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41 --play Tell an already-running instance of Totem to play (has no effect
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45 Tell an already-running instance of Totem to pause (has no
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48 --next Tell an already-running instance of Totem to skip to the next
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52 Tell an already-running instance of Totem to return to the pre‐
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56 Tell an already-running instance of Totem to seek forwards 15
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60 Tell an already-running instance of Totem to seek backwards 15
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64 Tell an already-running instance of Totem to raise the volume by
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68 Tell an already-running instance of Totem to lower the volume by
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71 --mute Tell an already-running instance of Totem to toggle between
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75 Tell an already-running instance of Totem to toggle fullscreen
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80 --enqueue filename|URI
81 Tell an already-running instance of Totem to add a new stream to
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85 Tell an already-running instance of Totem to play from the
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89 Global keybindings for Totem:
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91 a cycle between aspect ratios
92 p toggle between play and pause
93 Esc exit full screen mode
94 f toggle full screen
95 h toggle display of on-screen controls
96 0 resize window to 50% original size
97 1 resize window to 100% original size
98 2 resize window to 200% original size
99 r zoom in the video
100 t zoom out the video
101 d start and stop the telestrator (drawing) mode
102 e erase the drawing
103 Left-arrow skip back 15 seconds
104 Right-arrow skip forward 60 seconds
105 Shift+Left-arrow skip back 5 seconds
106 Shift+Right-arrow skip forward 15 seconds
107 Ctrl+Left-arrow skip back 3 minutes
108 Ctrl+Right arrow skip forward 10 minutes
109 Up-arrow increase volume by 8%
110 Down-arrow decrease volume by 8%
111 b jump back to previous chapter/movie in playlist
112 n jump to next chapter/movie in playlist
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114 Ctrl+E eject the playing optical media
115 Ctrl+O open a new file
116 Ctrl+L open a new URI
117 F9 toggle display of the playlist
118 m show the DVD menu
119 c show the DVD chapter menu
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122 /usr/lib/totem/plugins/
123 The global plugins directory, which contains all the system-
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125 ~/.local/share/totem/plugins/
126 The user plugins directory, containing plugins available only to
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129 ~/.config/totem/state.ini
130 The configuration file for the main window's appearance, stored
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134 Totem cannot play files using some proprietary codecs.
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137 Totem was written by Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>. This manual
138 page was written by Andre Lehovich for the Debian Project.
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141 The latest version of Totem may be downloaded from
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143 ⟨https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos⟩
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