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Totem

Totem is the official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment based on xine-lib or GStreamer. It features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as keyboard navigation.

Features include:

  • Play any xine or GStreamer supported file (depending on the backend chosen, defaults to xine)
  • LIRC support
  • Shoutcast, m3u, asx, SMIL and ra playlists support (also usable from a shipped LGPL library)
  • DVD (with menus), VCD and Digital CD (with CDDB) playback, disc-type automatically detected
  • TV-Out configuration with optional resolution switching
  • 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, stereo and AC3 Passthrough audio output
  • Full-screen mode (move your mouse and you get nice controls) with Xinerama, dual-head and Viewport support
  • Remote operation mode to control a running Totem
  • Seek and Volume controls
  • Aspect ratio changing, Scaling based on the video's original size
  • Full keyboard control
  • Playlist with Repeat and Shuffle modes, with saving feature and drag'n'drop reordering
  • Gnome and Nautilus integration (Totem registers the file-types, adds a menu item, uses the proxy configuration, saves sessions, and registers pnm, mms, uvox and rtsp schemes, removes playlist items from a disc that's getting ejected)
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  • Video thumbnailer for the file manager
  • Webcam utility (in development)
  • Nautilus properties tab
  • A Mozilla plugin
  • Nice default logo
  • Properties window (information about the current movie)
  • Drag'n'drop and mousewheel actions
  • Screenshot feature
  • Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation control
  • Visualisation plugin when playing audio-only files
  • Telestrator mode using Gromit
  • Video thumbnailer
  • Nautilus properties page
  • Works on remote displays
  • Optional GTK+-only build
  • Automatic external subtitle load, or manual (only on the command-line, use like: totem file:///file.avi#subtitle:file.srt)
  • DVD, VCD and OGG/OGM subtitles and languages support
  • Dialog for more accurate seeking
  • Authentication dialogs when location requires it
  • Right-to-Left languages support
  • Online help (in English, German, Spanish and Russian)

Last updated 10 Nov, 2005


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Requirements
  • xine-lib 1.0 or better or GStreamer 0.8.8 (Use Requirement)
  • and plugins version 0.8.7 (Use Requirement)
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Versions

1.2.0

1.2.0 stable released on 2005-09-05

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Developer Resources
  • VCS Checkout Command: Module is totem
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