Part IV. Multimedia / Chapter 18. Playing Movie Files | ||||
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 | 17.6. Configuring Banshee Preferences | 18.2. Modifying Totem Movie Player Preferences |  | |
Part IV. Multimedia / Chapter 18. Playing Movie Files | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.6. Configuring Banshee Preferences | 18.2. Modifying Totem Movie Player Preferences | | |
The Totem Movie Player application is a movie player for the GNOME desktop which provides the following features:
Support for a variety of video and audio files
A variety of zoom levels and aspect ratios, and a full screen view
Seek and volume controls
Playlists
Complete keyboard navigation
Video thumbnailer for GNOME
Nautilus properties tab
To start the Totem Movie Player, click +++.
When you start Totem Movie Player, the following window is displayed.
You can also drag a file from another application (such as a file manager) to the Totem Movie Player window. The Totem Movie Player application opens the file and plays the movie or song. Totem Movie Player displays the title of the movie or song beneath the display area and in the titlebar of the window.
If you try to open a file format that Totem Movie Player does not recognize, the application displays an error message.
You can double-click a video or audio file in the Nautilus file manager to open it on the Totem Movie Player window.
To play a DVD, VCD, or CD, insert the disc in the optical device of your computer, then click +.
To eject a DVD, VCD, or CD, click +.
To pause a movie or song that is playing, click the 
button, or click +. When you pause a movie or song, the statusbar
displays and the time elapsed on the
current movie or song stops.
To resume playing a movie or song, click the 
button, or click +.
To view properties of a movie or song, click + to make the sidebar appear, then click in the drop-down list. The dialog contains the title, artist, year, and duration of movie or song, video dimensions, codec and framerate, and the audio bitrate and codec.
To seek through movies or songs, use any of the following methods:
To skip forward a movie or song, click +.
To skip backward a movie or song, click +.
To move to the next movie or song, click + or click the 
button.
To move to the previous movie or song, click +, or click the 
button.
To change the zoom factor of the display area, use any of the following methods:
Click +. To exit fullscreen mode, click the Leave Fullscreen button or press Esc.
Click ++.
Click ++.
Click ++.
To switch between different aspect ratios, click +. The supported aspect ratios include:
Auto
Square
4:3 (TV)
16:9 (Widescreen)
2.11:1 (DVB)
The default aspect ratio is .
To hide the Totem Movie Player window controls, click + to deselect the Show Controls option. To show the controls on the Totem Movie Player window, right-click the window, then select .If the Show Controls option is selected, Totem Movie Player shows the menubar, time elapsed slider, seek control buttons, volume slider, and statusbar on the window. If the Show Controls option is not selected, the application hides these controls and shows only display area.
To show the playlist, click +, then click at the top of the sidebar. The Playlist dialog box is displayed.
You can use the Playlist dialog box to do the following:
To add a track or movie: Click the button. Select the file you want to add to the playlist, then click
To remove a track or movie: Select the filenames from the filename list box, then click .
To save a playlist to file: Click the button, then specify a filename
To move a track or movie up the playlist: Select the filename from the filename list box, then click the button.
To move a track or movie down the playlist: Select the filename from the filename list box, then click the button
To hide the playlist, click +, or click the Sidebar button.
To enable or disable repeat mode, click +. To enable or disable shuffle mode, click +.
To choose the language of the subtitles, click +, then select the subtitles language you want to display.
To disable the display of subtitles, click ++.
By default, Totem Movie Player chooses the same language for the subtitles that you use on your computer.
Totem Movie Player automatically loads and displays subtitles
if the file that contains them has the same name as the video file
and has an asc, txt,
sub, smi, or
ssa file extension.
