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

It comes with added functionality such as:

  • Video thumbnailer for the file manager
  • Nautilus properties tab
  • Mozilla (Firefox) plugin to view movies inside your browser (in development)
  • Webcam utility (in development)

Features:

  • Play any GStreamer-supported file
  • LIRC support
  • Shoutcast, m3u, asx, SMIL and ra playlists support (also usable from a shipped LGPL library)
  • DVD (with menus), VCD 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
  • Fullscreen 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Online help (in English, German, Spanish, Russian, French and Bulgarian)

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