Videos Alternatives

Videos

Videos (previously Totem) is the official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment based on xine-lib or GStreamer. It features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as keyboard navigation.
It comes with added functionality such as:

Video thumbnailer for the file manager
Nautilus properties tab
Mozilla (Firefox) plugin to view movies inside your browser
Command-line video properties helper (for indexers)

Features:

Play any GStreamer-supported file
LIRC support
Shoutcast, m3u, asx, SMIL and ra playlists support (also usable from a shipped LGPL library)
DVD (with menus), VCD playback, disc-type automatically detected
TV-Out configuration with optional resolution switching
4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, stereo and AC3 Passthrough audio output
Fullscreen mode (move your mouse and you get nice controls) with Xinerama, dual-head and Viewport support
Remote operation mode to control a running Totem
Seek and Volume controls
Aspect ratio changing, Scaling based on the video's original size
Full keyboard control
Playlist with Repeat and Shuffle modes, with saving feature and drag'n'drop reordering
GNOME and Nautilus integration (Totem registers the file-types, adds a menu item, uses the proxy configuration, saves sessions, and registers pnm, mms, uvox and rtsp schemes, removes playlist items from a disc that's getting ejected)
Properties window (information about the current movie)
Drag'n'drop and mousewheel actions
Screenshot feature
Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation control
Visualisation plugin when playing audio-only files
Telestrator mode using Gromit
Video thumbnailer
Nautilus properties page
Works on remote displays
Automatic external subtitle load, or manual (only on the command-line, use like: totem file:///file.avi#subtitle:file.srt)
DVD, VCD and OGG/OGM subtitles and languages support
Dialog for more accurate seeking
Authentication dialogs when location requires it
Online help (in English, German, Spanish, Russian, French and Bulgari