Totem
Saturday, 27 May 2006, michuk
Totem is the default video player in Gnome. In its early development phase, it used to be laughed at due to its lack of functions and simple interface. Now nobody laughts anymore because Totem became a stable and full-featured multimedia player, capable of using both Gstreamer and Xine backends (the second is recommended if you are willing to watch videos in the WMV format).
Totem has a nice, clean interface. It is still not as functional as Kaffeine or the old Xine and MPlayer apps. It has some killer features however:
- fast and easy DVD playback (supports DVD menus)
- watching AVI movies with subtitles
- very easy way to configure the brightness and contrast from withing the player
- visual effects during audio playback
- Xinerama support
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I am a new lunux user and I installed Mandrivia 2007. It flies much better that windows. However I tried to use totem for u-tube and I got the messege “Totem could not play ‘file:///home/sweet_tucker/tmp/l.swf’. There is no plug in to handle this movie.”
Where do I look?
Search for gstreamer-plugins-ugly in the repositories.