You can start Totem Movie Player in the following ways:
Choose Sound & Video ▸ Movie Player.
To start Totem Movie Player from a command line, type the following command, then press Return:
totem
To view other command line options that are available, type totem --help, then press Return.
When you start Totem Movie Player, the following window is displayed.
The Totem Movie Player window contains the following elements:
The menus on the menubar contain all of the commands you need to use in Totem Movie Player.
The display area displays the movie or a visualisation of the current song.
The sidebar displays properties of the file played and acts as playlist. It can also be used by various plugins, such as the MythTV, YouTube and Video Search plugins.
The time elapsed slider displays the elapsed time of movie or song that is playing. It also enables you to skip forward or backward in a movie or song.
The seek control buttons enables you to move to the next or previous track, and to pause or play a movie or song.
The volume slider enables you to adjust the volume.
The statusbar displays status information about the movie or song that is playing.