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Meet the Totem media player

MOVIE MAGIC

Author(s): Dave Phillips

Totem brings Hollywood to your Linux desktop. We’ll show you how to get started with this movie player.

The Totem media player is the Gnome desktop’s official movie player, so it’s no surprise to find it listed in the Applications | Sound & Video menu as Hardy Heron’s default player for video files and DVDs [1]. Given the availability of other popular players, one might wonder why Heron’s developers chose Totem, but after spending only a little time with it, I’m not sure I can easily go back to anything else.


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