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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.)
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.

Tell an already-running instance of Videos to toggle between play and pause.
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to play (has no effect if already playing)
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to pause (has no effect if already paused)
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to skip to the next movie or chapter in the playlist.
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to return to the previous movie or chapter in the playlist.
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to seek forwards 15 seconds in the current movie.
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to seek backwards 15 seconds in the current movie.
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to raise the volume by 8%.
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to lower the volume by 8%.
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to toggle between muted and unmuted audio.
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to toggle fullscreen mode.
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to quit.
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to add a new stream to the playlist.
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.

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

totem-video-thumbnailer(1),

The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

2022-06-20 GNOME