Ubuntu Manpage: GNOME Videos

Provided by: totem-common_43.1-1ubuntu1_all

NAME

       GNOME Videos - Movie player

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       Videos is a movie player for the GNOME desktop.  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 videos types: Ogg, AVI, ASF,
       MOV, WMV, QuickTime, and more.  Playback of DVDs is also possible.

       For additional documentation on interactive use of Videos 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 --help should be reported as a documentation bug.)

--version
Output version information then quit.

The following options command an already-running instance of Videos to do something; they
are useful for remote-control scripting. If Videos is not already running, these commands
will launch a new instance of Videos but will not do anything further.

--play-pause
Tell an already-running instance of Videos to toggle between play and pause.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

--mute Tell an already-running instance of Videos to toggle between muted and unmuted
audio.

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

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

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

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

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.

       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

       Videos cannot play files using some proprietary codecs.

AUTHOR

       Videos 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      Videos      may      be      downloaded      from
       <https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Totem>
       ⟨https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Totem⟩