totem(1)						      General Commands Manual							  totem(1)

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 avail-
       able 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 --help should 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 Totem to toggle between play and pause.

       --play Tell an already-running instance of Totem to play (has no effect if already playing)

       --pause
	      Tell an already-running instance of Totem to pause (has no effect if already paused)

       --next Tell an already-running instance of Totem to skip to the next movie or chapter in the playlist.

       --previous
	      Tell an already-running instance of Totem to return to the previous movie or chapter in the playlist.

       --seek-fwd
	      Tell an already-running instance of Totem to seek forwards 15 seconds in the current movie.

       --seek-bwd
	      Tell an already-running instance of Totem to seek backwards 15 seconds in the current movie.

       --volume-up
	      Tell an already-running instance of Totem to raise the volume by 8%.

       --volume-down
	      Tell an already-running instance of Totem to lower the volume by 8%.

       --fullscreen
	      Tell an already-running instance of Totem to toggle fullscreen mode.

       --toggle-controls
	      Tell an already-running instance of Totem to toggle showing the controls.

       --quit Tell an already-running instance of Totem to quit.

       --enqueue filename|URI
	      Tell an already-running instance of Totem to add a new stream to the playlist.

       --replace filename|URI
	      Tell an already-running instance of Totem to play from the playlist.

KEYBINDINGS

       Global keybindings for Totem:

       a	    cycle between aspect ratios
       p	    toggle between play and pause
       Esc	    exit full screen mode
       f	    toggle full screen
       h	    toggle display of on-screen controls
       0	    resize window to 50% original size
       1	    resize window to 100% original size
       2	    resize window to 200% original size
       r	    zoom in the video
       t	    zoom out the video
       d	    start and stop the telestrator (drawing) mode
       e	    erase the drawing
       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     increase volume by 8%
       Down-arrow   decrease volume by 8%
       b	    jump back to previous chapter/movie in playlist
       n	    jump to next chapter/movie in playlist
       q	    quit
       Ctrl+E	       eject the playing optical media
       Ctrl+O	    open a new file
       Ctrl+L	    open a new URI
       F9	    toggle display of the playlist
       m	    show the DVD menu
       c	    show the DVD chapter menu

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_HOME directory.
       ~/.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@hadess.net>.  This manual page was written by Andre Lehovich for the Debian Project.

DISTRIBUTION

       The latest version of Totem may be downloaded from <http://projects.gnome.org/totem/> <http://projects.gnome.org/totem/>

SEE ALSO

       totem-video-thumbnailer(1),

       The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

GNOME
								    2008-08-25								  totem(1)