GNOME Videos - Movie player
totem [option...]
[filenames|URI]
Videos is a movie player for the GNOME desktop. Through use
of the GStreamer backend many popular file and streaming formats are
supported including: H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) MPEG-4, WebM and AV1,
MPEG-2 and MPEG-1, as well as legacy videos types: Ogg, AVI, ASF, MOV, WMV,
QuickTime, and more. Playback of DVDs is also possible.
For additional documentation on interactive use of Videos
select the Help menu option. The menus allow access to some features
not available through keybindings or command-line options.
- -?, --help
- Output a longer help message then quit. (Any discrepancies between this
man page and the output of totem --help should be reported as a
documentation bug.)
- --version
- Output version information then quit.
The following options command an already-running instance of
Videos to do something; they are useful for remote-control scripting.
If Videos is not already running, these commands will launch a new
instance of Videos but will not do anything further.
- --play-pause
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to toggle between play
and pause.
- --play
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to play (has no effect
if already playing)
- --pause
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to pause (has no effect
if already paused)
- --next
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to skip to the next
movie or chapter in the playlist.
- --previous
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to return to the
previous movie or chapter in the playlist.
- --seek-fwd
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to seek forwards 15
seconds in the current movie.
- --seek-bwd
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to seek backwards 15
seconds in the current movie.
- --volume-up
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to raise the volume by
8%.
- --volume-down
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to lower the volume by
8%.
- --mute
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to toggle between muted
and unmuted audio.
- --fullscreen
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to toggle fullscreen
mode.
- --quit
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to quit.
- --enqueue
filename|URI
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to add a new stream to
the playlist.
- --replace
filename|URI
- Tell an already-running instance of Videos to play from the
playlist.
Information about keybindings is available once the application is
started by typing Ctrl+Question Mark which might require pressing
Shift in some keyboard configurations.
/usr/lib/totem/plugins/
The global plugins directory, which contains all the
system-installed plugins.
~/.local/share/totem/plugins/
The user plugins directory, containing plugins available
only to that user. It is always in the "totem/plugins" subdirectory
of your XDG_DATA_HOME directory.
~/.config/totem/state.ini
The configuration file for the main window's appearance,
stored in a simple INI format.
Videos cannot play files using some proprietary codecs.
Videos was written by Bastien Nocera
<hadess@hadess.net>. This manual page was written by Andre Lehovich
for the Debian Project.