Saturday, October 14, 2006

Add to Totem's playlist


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Heya,

Like a year ago, I used to use Totem as a music playback application in the first place. I dropped some directories with mp3's on it, put on my wireless headphones and went outside. But, since I became a fulltime Banshee user, things changed. For instance, I don't have Totem's playlist pane open anymore by default. Now, sometimes I find an mp3 on my harddrive I didn't know I still had with some obscure name and the Nautilus preview sounds good. Then, I just click it to open it in Totem. Well, If I find more of those at once, I feel the need to queue some songs again I don't want to add to my Banshee library (yet). Plus, I don't want to have the playlist opened, as it uses too much screen real-estate for these 10 minutes. Now I found a great solution. You don't have to drop songs on the playlist field to queue 'm up. You can just drop 'm on the "Show playlist" button too! Thanks alot, Totem dev's !

Ciao!

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Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Subtitles in Totem


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Heya!

My exams are over and I passed them all, hooray! So I thought: time to watch some movies and relax. I browsed my network beginning at the computer-icon I put in my gnome-panel (which is an application launcher launching "nautilus --no-desktop computer:///" - I put this on my panel after removing the computer icon from my desktop with gconf). I came across one of my brother's SMB movie-shares, right-clicked on the share, chose "connect to server" and the share was on my desktop. I opened the directory and clicked on "Monty python's The Meaning Of Live.avi". The movie started but I wanted the Dutch subtitle which was also in that same share to be shown. This really is easy; Just change the name of the subtitle-file to the same name as the movie but with a .srt extension and totem loads it automagically. Doing this in gnome is even easier/quicker then on any other desktop I know. select the movie-file, press F2, the name of the file without the extension will be selected. Press Ctrl-C to copy the text, select the name of the subtitle (which normally ends in .srt), press F2 to select the name, press Ctrl-V to paste the name of the movie, press enter and you'r done!
So, the movie started and I layed down on my bed to watch it, but from that distance I couldn't read the text very well :|. Next step: enlarging the font of the subtitles; After asking around on #gnome-nl (the IRC channel of the friendly Dutch-Flemish gnome community), I found the totem-configuration file in ~/.gnome2/totem_config. Open this file ith gedit, let it search for "size" and you'll find this lines:
# subtitle size
# { tiny small normal large very large huge }, default: 1
subtitles.separate.subtitle_size:large

There was a # before that last line and the 'large' was 'small' before. I changed it and now I can enjoy the movie ! So what am I waiting for ?

bye!

PS: here's the proof:

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