totem(1)

💖 totem(1) — GNOME Videos, the movie player of my dreams 💖

General Commands Manual ✨ totem ✨

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about GNOME Videos — yes, the command is totem, it's giving legacy naming, we love her anyway 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

GNOME Videos — Movie player. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Videos is a movie player for the GNOME desktop. no cap. 🍓

Through use of the GStreamer backend, many popular file and streaming formats are supported, including:

• H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) MPEG-4
• WebM and AV1
• MPEG-2 and MPEG-1
• as well as legacy video types: Ogg, AVI, ASF, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, and more 🔥

Playback of DVDs is also possible. yes, DVDs. the ancient discs. she contains multitudes. 💀

For additional documentation on interactive use of Videos, select the Help menu option. the menus give you access to some features that are not available through keybindings or command-line options, so like, don't @ me if you can't find it in the terminal. 🌈

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -?, --help — outputs a longer help message, then quits. (Any discrepancies between this man page and the output of totem --help should be reported as a documentation bug. fr fr, snitch on us, we want to know. 🙈)
• --version — outputs version information, then quits.

now here's the part where it gets cute. 💜 the following options command an already-running instance of Videos to do something — they are useful for remote-control scripting. the catch: if Videos is not already running, these commands will launch a new instance of Videos but will not do anything further. so like, you get a window and zero follow-through. it's giving situationship. 😭

• --play-pause — tells an already-running instance of Videos to toggle between play and pause.
• --play — tells an already-running instance of Videos to play (has no effect if already playing).
• --pause — tells an already-running instance of Videos to pause (has no effect if already paused).
• --next — tells an already-running instance of Videos to skip to the next movie or chapter in the playlist.
• --previous — tells an already-running instance of Videos to return to the previous movie or chapter in the playlist.
• --seek-fwd — tells an already-running instance of Videos to seek forwards 15 seconds in the current movie.
• --seek-bwd — tells an already-running instance of Videos to seek backwards 15 seconds in the current movie.
• --volume-up — tells an already-running instance of Videos to raise the volume by 8%.
• --volume-down — tells an already-running instance of Videos to lower the volume by 8%.
• --mute — tells an already-running instance of Videos to toggle between muted and unmuted audio.
• --fullscreen — tells an already-running instance of Videos to toggle fullscreen mode.
• --quit — tells an already-running instance of Videos to quit.
• --enqueue filename|URI — tells an already-running instance of Videos to add a new stream to the playlist.
• --replace filename|URI — tells an already-running instance of Videos to play from the playlist.

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🎀 KEYBINDINGS 🎀

Information about keybindings is available once the application is started, by typing Ctrl+Question Mark — which might require pressing Shift in some keyboard configurations. keyboard lore. iykyk. ⌨️✨

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🧚 FILES 🧚

• /usr/lib/totem/plugins/ — the global plugins directory, which contains all the system-installed plugins. the main-character plugins, if you will. 👑
• ~/.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. your personal stash. 🫶
• ~/.config/totem/state.ini — the configuration file for the main window's appearance, stored in a simple INI format.

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💀 BUGS 💀

Videos cannot play files using some proprietary codecs. tragic. devastating. she's doing her best. 😭

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Videos was written by Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>. This manual page was written by Andre Lehovich for the Debian Project. absolute icons, both of them. 💖

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🌈 DISTRIBUTION 🌈

The latest version of Videos may be downloaded from <https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Totem> — go get her. ✨

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• totem-video-thumbnailer(1)
• The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🥳 this was the GNOME version, dated 2022-06-20, from the totem(1) era — go forth and watch something iconic. periodt. 💅🦋🌸