2.26.0:
* Make sure all the Python plugins are translated
* Fix the language selection in the OpenSubtitles plugin
2.25.92:
* Set PulseAudio application properties
* Fix possible crasher in eggdesktopfile
* Add support for MXF videos
* Fix repeat not working in the browser plugin
2.25.91:
* Document internal API for plugin writers
* Fix a few focus problems
* Accept human-friendly inputs in the "Skip To" dialogue
* Add a huge number of languages to the subtitle downloader plugin
* Make looping smoother when only one file is being played in repeat
* Make the gallery creation progress window work as expected
* Fix a possible crasher when getting metadata in the xine-lib backend
* Many build fixes
* Make Totem more robust when Python fails to initialise
2.25.90:
* Add a UPNP/DLNA plugin
* Add a plugin to allow creating galleries of screenshots
for video files
* Add a plugin to allow copying DVDs and VCDs through Brasero,
as well as creating new DVDs from the playing video
* Add support for Repeat and Shuffle through LIRC
* Add support for a number of playlist types
* Update audio and video files types supported by the properties
window to not include playlists
* Fix recent files not working when the playlist was empty
* Avoid resetting colour balance sliders when set at the maximum
or the minimum
* Fix the screensaver not being disabled in some cases
* Add number of build and UI fixes
2.25.3 (changes since 2.24.3):
* Interface changes:
- Make the left-click seek directly to the destination
- Hide colour balance sliders that aren't available
- Make modifiers work as expected when drag'n'dropping files
- Use "Movie Player" everywhere in the interface
- Add an arrow to the sidebar button
- Convert British English messages to American English
- Show the fullscreen popups when seeking with the keyboard
- Better behaviour when changing the type of playlist to be saved
- Fix playlist problems when removing an file that was deleted
from the filesystem
* Subtitle handling:
- Add plugin to download text subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org
- Allow selecting a text subtitle from the View menu, or by dropping
the file onto the video widget
- Add the subtitle and languages menus to the fullscreen popup
* Browser plugin:
- Remove the "basic" web browser plugin, we now use the same
API as VideoLAN for our default plugin
- Fix relative paths not resolving in some cases
- Fix repeat=true only playing files twice
* Plugins:
- Add Jamendo plugin
- Add support for streaming TV from MythTV
- Fix YouTube movie playback following website changes
- Make the local search and YouTube search sidebars look more alike
- Add proper mute support for remote controls
- Fix the metadata-updated signal to be useful
* Build:
- Remove libgnome dependency
- Remove NVTV support
- Use g_timeout_add_seconds() when possible
* GStreamer backend:
- Require the rsndvdbin plugin for DVD playback
- Add zoom support
- Fix some files not giving us metadata with the video indexer
- Fix the video window getting bigger than the screen
- When streaming, the pause button stops
* Other:
- Add ability to create a gallery image using the video thumbnailer
2.16.0
* Add keyboard support for the DVD keys: Up, Down, Left, Right
* Add support for audio/AMR, audio/AMR-WB and Musepack
* Remove old GStreamer 0.8 hacks
* Avoid repeat being turned on when it shouldn't in the web browser plugin
1.5.92
* Fix a crash when HAL isn't available
* Fix compilation with older versions of HAL, without HAL, and with the
Browser plugin disabled
* Save and restore the sidebar width
* Set and use the connection speed preference (GStreamer)
1.5.91
* Numerous Browser Plugin enhancements:
- Playlist support
- Split the plugin in 4 different plugins, to allow
name-based detection to work, and different Javascript interfaces
to be used (Real Player/Helix, Windows Media Player and Quicktime
compatible, and basic Totem)
- Handle repeat and autostart parameters
- Make sure the plugin is available for all Mozilla-based browsers
- Make scrolling on the volume widget work as it should
* New icon
* Use HAL to determine the disc type
* Save and restore which sidebar was showing, and whether Totem was
maximised
* Fix the window title not changing when playing files with broken names
* Fix Ctrl+Q not working in fullscreen
* More logo mode fixes (xine-lib)
* Fix aspect ratio of visuals (xine-lib)
1.5.90
* Add a default filename to the save playlist dialogue
* Add supprot for more DVD related remote buttons
* Move the properties dialogue to the sidebar
* Fix build with newer versions of D-Bus
* Avoid linking directly against the Mozilla libraries, should allow
build-time and run-time engines to be different (build against Mozilla,
run in Firefox)
* Make the "Seek To" dialogue work correctly when using the keyboard
* Fix logo related redraws (xine-lib)
* Try harder to extract audio/subtitles languages from files (GStreamer)
1.5.4
* update xine-lib requirement to avoid startup crashes
1.5.3
* Text subtitle encoding is now selectable
* Numerous Browser Plugin enhancements:
- Try to cache files while playing them
- Add support for cache=true hint
- Fix getting the true path for relative paths
- Add support for audio-only playback
- Add a way to copy the URL from the right-click menu
- Add "Open in Movie Player" in the right-click menu
* Make showing/hiding the sidebar not resize the video or the window
* Pop down language and subtitle menus to avoid hangs when the language or
subtitle changes while the menu is open
* Add AC3 and Monkey's audio to the known filetypes
* Draw the logo ourselves, so we don't crash on startup if the logo is too
big for the X video buffer (xine-lib)
* Show the logo when playing audio without visualisations
* Fix a crash with non-default buffering values (GStreamer)
* Fix a leak each time the logo was set (GStreamer)
* Fix the "Skip to" dialogue not working when paused (GStreamer)
1.5.2
* Make Space Play/Pause when the video widget has the focus
* Fix DVD playback when started from gnome-volume-manager
* Allow localisation for time labels
* Fix possible crash when using the Nautilus properties tab
* Use HAL to detect presence of discs in the drives
* Fix problems using the Mozilla plugin on PPC systems
* Add Impulse Tracker and MOD files to the list of supported types
* Add audio/vnd.rn-realaudio as a supported playlist format
* Use theme friendly window icons
* Fix a new installation of Totem not using visualisation (GStreamer)
1.5.1
* Add XSPF playlists read and write support
* Allow users to choose the type of playlist to write when saving
1.5.0
* Remove unused DXR3 support
* Remove GStreamer 0.8 support
* Fix the GTK+-only version not displaying some menu items
* Update the "Skip to" time label when entering time manually, fix sensitivity
of the OK button in that dialogue
* Fix crash on exit if the interface couldn't be loaded
* Add basic support for the Quicktime Metalink playlists
* Avoid deadlocks when forcing opening with a subtitle when there's none
* Fix crash when setting the connection speed setting to the maximum
* Make the previous/next icons in the popup the same as in the rest
of the interface
* Make menu shortcuts unaccessible in fullscreen
* Make Ctrl+S show the "Skip to" dialogue as it should
* Fix a small memory leak in the Nautilus properties plugin
* Add debugging to the playlist parser
* Make the preferences window appear on top of the main window at all times,
and hide it straight away when exiting
* Fix playback of non-Mozilla streams (such as mms) in the Mozilla plugin
* Fix saving non-relative m3u playlists
* Handle space as Play/pause in windowed mode if the video widget has
the focus
* Work-around broken .pls files from Virgin radio
* Fix problems with sound not coming out when audio output selected
isn't Stereo (xine-lib)
* Fix pixel aspect ratio settings (GStreamer)
changes:
-UI improvements
* Add Impulse Tracker and MOD files to the list of supported types
* Add audio/vnd.rn-realaudio as a supported playlist format
-bugfixes
martti@.
New features:
* New Ukrainian (uk) help files
* Use filters in the Open file dialogues
* Support turning off the screensaver when gnome-screensaver is used
* Scroll to the current file in the playlist when starting to play it
* Add ability to play back DVDs and VCDs from .iso and .bin/.cue files
* Add a menu item for switching angles on DVDs
* Don't add backup files to the playlist
* Remove audio CD playback from the UI, as to avoid duplication with sound-
juicer and Rhythmbox
Bug fixes:
* Play file from the beginning when double-clicking on it in the playlist
* Make CD drives with blank CDs in them unsensitive in the Play Disc menu
* Avoid weird startes when using the "Toggle fullscreen mode" shortcut
* Fix drag'n'drop on the playlist itself not working
* Parse Shoucast playlists in .m3u files properly
* Stop the currently playing song when loading a media, and playing this
media fails
* Set the play/pause buttons' tooltips according to the image
* Fix possible crashes on startup when the widget creation functions cannot
be found
* Use N/A instead of '0' when the bitrate or the number of frames per second
isn't available in the property window
* Fix a possible crash on startup in the Mozilla plugin
* Fix possible i18n problems with the Nautilus properties window and the
Mozilla plugin
* Fix compilation of the Mozilla plugin with newer versions of D-Bus
* Fix a memory leak in the Mozilla plugin
* Fix a crasher when running the Mozilla plugin in a debug build
* Allow compiling the Mozilla plugin against xulrunner
* Fix duplicate access key in the display preferences
* Fix wrong accesskeys for the saturation and hue sliders
* Show the video properties again when a stream has video
* Move Totem's remote socket to TMPDIR
* Remove libmusicbrainz dependency
* Detect DVDs and VCDs properly on a pmount setup
* Don't save Totem's thumbnail with an alpha component, for recent
Nautilus changes
* Remove keyboard shortcuts from the main video popup menu
* Fix resizing of the sidebar
* Fix problems parsing remote ASX files
GStreamer:
* GStreamer 0.10 support
* Fix an access to invalid memory when getting metadata from a file
xine-lib:
* Avoid playback stopping when seeking forward in DVDs
* Get the xine-lib version at run-time
New features and significant updates in version...
1.2.0:
* New French (fr) translation of the help files
* Fix problems with the nautilus property window not getting translated
properly
* Add missing strings for translation
* Remove warnings when exiting early because audio or video outputs
aren't available (GStreamer)
* Fix the visualisations not running on startup (xine-lib)
* Correctly change the visualisation plugin when it's not currently in use
(xine-lib)
1.1.5:
* Fix Totem not finding the type of a disc when it's not in /etc/fstab
* Some (more) volume button fixes
* Don't leak memory when getting the supported mime-types of the plugin
* Fix generation of the playlist-end signal in the playlist parser
* Allow reading DVD off the disk (GStreamer)
1.1.4:
* Fix sensitivity of the volume menu items
* Avoid crashes with the screensaver disabling code
* Use D-Bus for the communication between the mozilla plugin and the viewer
(more reliable, and supports multiple plugins at the same time)
* Make it impossible to have the sidebar smaller than the buttons it contains
* Hide the sidebar when hiding the controls
* Make the sidebar shortcut F9 like other GNOME applications
* Add suport for ASF redirect files
* Don't display the length in full-screen mode if it is unknown
* Disable the "Save" button in the playlist if it is empty
* More volume button fixes
* Fix build with newer pkg-config versions
* Fix double error messages when reading encrypted files (xine-lib)
* Only create visual effects plugins when needed, not on startup (xine-lib)
* Allow remote subtitle files (GStreamer)
1.1.3:
* Move the playlist dialog to a sidebar
* Use a new volume widget in the main player window
* Deprecate the use of vcd:, dvd: and cd: to play discs, and have the
user pass a directory (for vcd: and dvd:) or a device path (for all) instead
* Avoid resizing on startup before we really show the window
* Fix a crash when 'Hide controls' is called while starting up
* Move the Repeat and Shuffle menu items to the Edit menu
* Disable the Zoom menu items correctly on boundaries
* Don't crash when trying to set the Zoom level during startup
* Hide the main window quicker on exit
* Make the album name selectable in the property dialogues
* Update the length in the property window as the stream is played
* Add the ability to write/read a title when saving a playlist
* Ignore images and text files when reading playlists or parsing directories
* Say that we support Shorten and 3GPP files
* Show the track number in the window title if available
* Avoid triggering the mouse pointer highlighter when in fullscreen
* More resilient "Play disc" feature when trying to play back Audio CDs
* Sort files before inserting them in the playlist when dropping them
* Better parsing of ASX playlists and ASF reference files
* Better Mozilla plugin headers detection
* Fix compilation of the Mozilla plugin with GCC4
* Add a working volume button
* Fix the Mozilla plugin's window showing up outside the browser (GStreamer)
* Better iradio title support (GStreamer)
* Add DVD subtitles support (GStreamer)
* Better error messages on startup and during playback (GStreamer)
* Fix some memory leaks (GStreamer)
* Remove a few startup warnings (GStreamer)
* Work-around problem in xine-lib that could mean files showing up as 0-length
* Work-around errors when seeking near the end of an ASF/WMV file
* Fix crashes when playing back some files with errors (xine-lib)
* Add a proper warning when trying to play an empty file (xine-lib)
* Fix hand icon not appearing on DVD menus in fullscreen (xine-lib)
* Fix detection of still images with newer xine-lib
* Fix screenshot aspect ratio for some MPEG files
1.1.2:
* Use MusicBrainz to get Title, Album, etc. for audio CDs
* Also read 3 letters country-codes for subtitles and languages
* Remove unexisting local files from the recent files list
* Make subtitles and languages menus unsensitive rather than their submenus
* Have the nautilus properties page set the tab label according to the file type
* Add the "--print-playing" command-line option that does what it says
* Desensitise zoom menu items when boundaries are reached
* Allow building the Mozilla plugin with Firefox
* Avoid deadlocks/CPU burn with the thumbnailer
* Fix GTK+ only build, remove GNOME dependency on the thumbnailer
* Make the Exit fullscreen appear on the right screen for Xinerama setups
* Misc Mozilla and playlist fixes
* Fix some playlist files from winamp.com not being parsed properly
* Don't show the fullscreen popups when the video window isn't focused
* Fix crash with some recent files
* Allow to pass a device directly to the playlist, for DVD and VCD
* Better error messages for some types of input (xine-lib)
* Fix crashes when zooming out too far (xine-lib)
* Prevent window flickering with some files (GStreamer)
* Implement per-track CD playback (GStreamer)
* Improve metadata loading in the nautilus properties page (GStreamer)
* Implement aspect-ratio switching (GStreamer)
* Add subtitles/languages labels for audio streams (GStreamer)
1.1.1:
* Major enhancements to the experimental mozilla plugin
* Remove use of libnautilus-burn, and list all the CD drives in the main
movie menu
* Add a preference to select the subtitle font
* Avoid the progress bar changing the status bar's height
* Allow Totem to be passed multiple files by Nautilus
* Translate the language names in Totem's menus
* Make the "Skip to..." dialog appear again
* Don't crash if the playlist contains non-UTF8 data
* Fix parsing of some ASX playlists
* Slight performance increase in adding entries to the playlist
* Fix Drag'n'drop of files and directories with broken UTF-8, and from
Konqueror
* Close the 'Open Location' dialogue when 'Esc' is pressed
* Fix a crash when reaching the first element in a shuffled/repeat playlist
* Fix parsing of directories with special characters and broken UTF-8
* Use the new 'Leave fullscreen' icon and label
* Add the Video bitrate in the properties
* Prevent a click in the recent files really opening the first file twice
* Add --play and --pause command-line options
* Fix compilation with glibc 2.2 systems
* Add a man page for totem-video-thumbnailer, and update the totem one
* Fix possible crash in the BaconMessageConnection
* Require glib 2.6.3 to fix the thumbnailer exiting too soon
* Fix date shown from some OGG files (GStreamer)
* Fix the cursor not disappearing (GStreamer)
* Allow relative paths to be passed to the thumbnailer (GStreamer)
* More HIG fixes
Totem is simple movie player for the GNOME desktop based on GStreamer and
Xine. It features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls,
as well as a pretty complete keyboard navigation.
This package is built using the GStreamer backend.