totem-video-thumbnailer(1)

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💖 totem-video-thumbnailer(1) 💖

okay so welcome to the man page for totem-video-thumbnailer — the video thumbnailer for the GNOME desktop, bestie. quick housekeeping: this page lives under the manual-name field that is, and I quote, literally empty (""), so don't come for me about the section, I'm just the messenger 🫶 and the whole thing is dated 2025-05-21 from GNOME, which we'll get to at the sign-off, slay.

✨ NAME ✨

totem-video-thumbnailer — video thumbnailer for the GNOME desktop

✨ SYNOPSYS ✨

totem-video-thumbnailer [-j|--jpeg] [-l|--no-limit] [-s size] input
output [backend options]

(yes it's spelled SYNOPSYS up there, no we are not fixing it, it's iconic, moving on 💅)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this manual page documents the totem-video-thumbnailer command briefly — that's the whole assignment. it was written for the Debian Project because the original program literally does not have a manual page, so we made one fr fr 🌸

here's the vibe: totem-video-thumbnailer is used internally by GNOME applications — nautilus being the main character here — to generate PNG thumbnails of video files. and yeah, you can invoke it manually if you want, nobody's stopping you, but like… it's usually done automatically by nautilus. it's giving background service energy 👑

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • input — the input filename, bestie. any format that totem can play. literally any of them 💖
  • output — the output filename, and it comes out in PNG format.
  • backend options — extra options you wanna pass straight through to the backend (i.e. gstreamer). hand them over, they're not ours anymore 🦋

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -j, --jpeg — switches the output format to JPEG. the default is PNG, just so we're clear ✨
  • -l, --no-limit — don't limit the thumbnailing time to 30 seconds. this one is for debugging purposes, so like… don't make it your whole personality 💀
  • -s size — the size of the thumbnail. example: "64x64". the default is "128x96". pick your dimensions, glow up accordingly 🎀

✨ AUTHOR ✨

totem-video-thumbnailer was written by Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>. king behavior 👑

and this manual page was written by Zack Cerza <zcerza@coe.neu.edu> for the Debian Project (but may be used by others — sharing is caring 🫶).

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

totem, nautilus

go check those out, they're the costars of this whole situation 🌈

okay that's the whole page!! this was totem-video-thumbnailer(1) from GNOME, dated 2025-05-21, and I hope your thumbnails are always crisp and your debug runs unlimited 💜🦋⭐

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