To open a video or an audio file, choose Movie ▸ Open (Ctrl+O). The Select Movies or Playlists dialog is displayed. Select the file(s) you want to open, then click OK.
You can drag a file from another application such as a file manager to the Totem Movie Player window. The Totem Movie Player application will open the file and play the movie or song. Totem Movie Player displays the title of the movie or song in the titlebar of the window and in the playlist in the sidebar.
If you try to open a file format that Totem Movie Player does not recognize, the application displays an error message. This error is most often encountered if you do not have the correct codecs installed. Information on getting codecs working can be found on the Totem Movie Player website.
You can double-click on a video or an audio file in the Nautilus file manager to open it on the Totem Movie Player window.
To open a file by URI location, choose Movie ▸ Open Location (Ctrl+L). The Open Location dialog is displayed. Use the drop-down combination box to specify the URI location of file you would like to open (it lists URIs which have previously been opened) – or type one in directly – then click on the Open button.
Insert the disc in the optical device of your computer, then choose Movie ▸ Play Disc.
To pause a movie or song that is playing, click on the
button, or choose
Movie ▸ Play / Pause (Ctrl+Space). You may also use the P key to pause or play a movie. When you pause a movie or song, the statusbar displays Paused
and the time elapsed on the current movie or song stops.
To resume playing a movie or song, click on the
button, or choose
Movie ▸ Play / Pause (Ctrl+Space).
To view properties of a movie or song, choose View ▸ Sidebar to make the sidebar appear, and choose Properties in the drop-down list.
ਵਾਰਤਾਲਾਪ 'ਚ ਹੇਠ ਲਿਖੀ ਜਾਣਕਾਰੀ ਹੈ:
Title, artist, album, year and duration of the movie or song, as well as any embedded comment the movie or song has.
Video dimensions, codec, framerate and bitrate.
Audio codec, channels, sample rate and bitrate.
To seek through movies or songs, you can use the following methods:
To skip forward a movie or song, choose Go ▸ Skip Forward (Right).
To skip backward a movie or song, choose Go ▸ Skip Backward (Left).
To skip to a specific elapsed time in the movie or song, choose Go ▸ Skip to (Ctrl+K). The Skip to dialog is displayed. Use the spin box to specify the elapsed time (in seconds) to skip to, then click OK.
To move to the next movie or song, choose
Go ▸ Next Chapter/Movie (Alt+Right) or click on the
button.
To move to the previous movie or song, choose
Go ▸ Previous Chapter/Movie (Alt+Left), or click on the
button.
To change the zoom factor of the display area, you can use the following methods:
To increase the volume, choose Sound ▸ Volume Up (Up) or move the volume slider to the right. To decrease the volume, choose Sound ▸ Volume Down (Down) or move the volume slider to the left.
To adjust the sound volume, you can also use the volume button. Press the volume button and choose the volume level with the slider.
To make the Totem Movie Player window always on top of other application windows, choose Edit ▸ Plugins. Select the Always on Top plugin to enable it. The Totem Movie Player window will now stay on top of all other windows while a movie is playing, but not while audio or visualisations are playing.
To stop the window always being on top, disable the Always on Top plugin again.
To show or hide the Totem Movie Player window controls, choose View ▸ Show Controls (Ctrl+H), or press the H key. You can also right-click on the Totem Movie Player window, then choose Show Controls (Ctrl+H) from the popup menu.
If the Show Controls option is selected, Totem Movie Player will show the menubar, time elapsed slider, seek control buttons, volume slider and statusbar on the window. If the Show Controls option is unselected, the application will hide these controls and show only the display area.
To show the playlist, choose View ▸ Sidebar, or click the Sidebar button, and choose Playlist on the top of the sidebar. The Playlist dialog is displayed.
To hide Playlist, choose View ▸ Sidebar or click on the Sidebar button again.
You can use the Playlist dialog to do the following:
To add a track or movie to the playlist, click on the Add button. The Select Movies or Playlists dialog is displayed. Select the file that you want to add to the playlist, then click Add.
To remove a track or movie from the playlist, select the items to remove from the filename list box, then click on the Remove button.
To save the playlist to a file, click on the Save Playlist button. The Save Playlist dialog is displayed; specify the filename as which you want to save the playlist, and click Save.
To move a track or movie up the playlist, select the item from the filename list box, then click on the Move Up button.
To move a track or movie down the playlist, select the item from the filename list box, then click on the Move Down button.
To choose the language of the subtitles, select View ▸ Subtitles and choose the subtitle language you want to display.
To disable the display of subtitles, select View ▸ Subtitles ▸ None.
By default, Totem Movie Player will choose the same language for the subtitles as the one you normally use on your computer.
Totem Movie Player will automatically load and display subtitles if the file which contains them has the same name as the video file played and the extension asc, txt, sub, smi, or ssa.
To take a screenshot of the movie or visualisation that is playing, choose Edit ▸ Take Screenshot. The Save Screenshot dialog is displayed. Choose a location and insert the filename as which you want to save the screenshot, then click the Save button to save the screenshot.
Totem Movie Player will display a preview of the screenshot which is to be saved on the left-hand side of the Save Screenshot dialog.