totem(1)                    General Commands Manual                   totem(1)

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>

SEE ALSO
       totem-video-thumbnailer(1),

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

GNOME                             2022-06-20                          totem(1)