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6 GNOME Videos - Movie player
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9 totem [option...] [filenames|URI]
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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‐
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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‐
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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
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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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44 Tell an already-running instance of Videos to pause (has no ef‐
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47 --next Tell an already-running instance of Videos to skip to the next
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51 Tell an already-running instance of Videos to return to the pre‐
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55 Tell an already-running instance of Videos to seek forwards 15
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59 Tell an already-running instance of Videos to seek backwards 15
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63 Tell an already-running instance of Videos to raise the volume
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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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74 Tell an already-running instance of Videos to toggle fullscreen
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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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84 Tell an already-running instance of Videos to play from the
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93 FILES /usr/lib/totem/plugins/
94 The global plugins directory, which contains all the system-in‐
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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
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101 The configuration file for the main window's appearance, stored
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105 Videos cannot play files using some proprietary codecs.
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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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112 The latest version of Videos may be downloaded from
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