totem (1) Linux Manual Page
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 available 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 –helpshould 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
Totemto toggle between play and pause. –play- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto play (has no effect if already playing) –pause- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto pause (has no effect if already paused) –next- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto skip to the next movie or chapter in the playlist. –previous- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto return to the previous movie or chapter in the playlist. –seek-fwd- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto seek forwards 15 seconds in the current movie. –seek-bwd- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto seek backwards 15 seconds in the current movie. –volume-up- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto raise the volume by 8%. –volume-down- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto lower the volume by 8%. –mute- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto toggle between muted and unmuted audio. –fullscreen- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto toggle fullscreen mode. –quit- Tell an already-running instance of
Totemto quit. –enqueuefilename|URI- Tell an already-running instance of Totem to add a new stream to the playlist.
–replacefilename|URI- Tell an already-running instance of Totem to play from the playlist.
KEYBINDINGS
Global keybindings for Totem:
a
p
Esc
f
h
0
1
2
r
t
d
e
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
Down-arrow
b
n
q
Ctrl+E eject the playing optical media
Ctrl+O
Ctrl+L
F9
m
c
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_HOMEdirectory.
~/.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 [at] hadess.net>. This manual page was written by Andre Lehovich for the Debian Project.
DISTRIBUTION
The latest version of Totem may be downloaded from <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos>
SEE ALSO
The online documentation available through the program’s Help menu.