


totem(1)                                                 totem(1)


NAME
       Totem - GNOME desktop movie player based on GStreamer

SYNOPSIS
       totem [option...] [filenames|URI]

DESCRIPTION
       Totem  is  a  movie  player  for the GNOME desktop.  Through use of the
       GStreamer backend many popular file and streaming formats are supported
       including:  MPEG  audio  and  video (MP3/MPV), Ogg, AVI, ASF, MOV, WMV,
       QuickTime, and more.  Playing of DVD and VCD media  is  also  possible.
       Although primarily intended as a movie player, Totem can also play many
       audio formats.

       For additional documentation on interactive use  of  Totem  select  the
       Help  menu  option.  The menus allow access to some features not avail-
       able through keybindings or command-line options.

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  Totem  to
       do something; they are useful for remote-control scripting. If Totem is
       not already running, these commands will launch a new instance of Totem
       but will not do anything further.

       --play-pause
              Tell an already-running instance of Totem to toggle between play
              and pause.

       --play Tell an already-running instance of Totem to play (has no effect
              if already playing)

       --pause
              Tell  an  already-running  instance  of  Totem  to pause (has no
              effect if already paused)

       --next Tell an already-running instance of Totem to skip  to  the  next
              movie or chapter in the playlist.

       --previous
              Tell  an already-running instance of Totem to return to the pre-
              vious movie or chapter in the playlist.

       --seek-fwd
              Tell an already-running instance of Totem to  seek  forwards  15
              seconds in the current movie.




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       --seek-bwd
              Tell  an  already-running instance of Totem to seek backwards 15
              seconds in the current movie.

       --volume-up
              Tell an already-running instance of Totem to raise the volume by
              8%.

       --volume-down
              Tell an already-running instance of Totem to lower the volume by
              8%.

       --fullscreen
              Tell an already-running instance of Totem to  toggle  fullscreen
              mode.

       --toggle-controls
              Tell  an already-running instance of Totem to toggle showing the
              controls.

       --quit Tell an already-running instance of Totem to quit.

       --enqueue filename|URI
              Tell an already-running instance of Totem to add a new stream to
              the playlist.

       --replace filename|URI
              Tell  an  already-running  instance  of  Totem  to play from the
              playlist.

KEYBINDINGS
       Global keybindings for Totem:

       a            cycle between aspect ratios
       p            toggle between play and pause
       Esc          exit full screen mode
       f            toggle full screen
       h            toggle display of on-screen controls
       0            resize window to 50% original size
       1            resize window to 100% original size
       2            resize window to 200% original size
       r            zoom in the video
       t            zoom out the video
       d            start and stop the telestrator (drawing) mode
       e            erase the drawing
       Left-arrow        skip back 15 seconds
       Right-arrow       skip forward 60 seconds
       Shift+Left-arrow  skip back 5 seconds
       Shift+Right-arrow skip forward 15 seconds
       Ctrl+Left-arrow   skip back 3 minutes
       Ctrl+Right arrow  skip forward 10 minutes
       Up-arrow     increase volume by 8%
       Down-arrow   decrease volume by 8%
       b            jump back to previous chapter/movie in playlist



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       n            jump to next chapter/movie in playlist
       q            quit
       Ctrl+E          eject the playing optical media
       Ctrl+O       open a new file
       Ctrl+L       open a new URI
       F9           toggle display of the playlist
       m            show the DVD menu
       c            show the DVD chapter menu

FILES
       /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.

BUGS
       Totem cannot play files using some proprietary codecs.

AUTHOR
       Totem was written by Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>.   This  manual
       page was written by Andre Lehovich for the Debian Project.

DISTRIBUTION
       The  latest  version  of  Totem  may  be  downloaded  from <http://pro-
       jects.gnome.org/totem/>

SEE ALSO
       totem-video-thumbnailer(1),

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





















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