NAME¶

Xplayer - GNOME desktop movie player based on GStreamer

SYNOPSIS¶

xplayer [option...] [filenames|URI]

DESCRIPTION¶

Xplayer is a movie player for the GNOME desktop. Through use of the GStreamer backend many popular file and streaming formats are supported including: MPEG audio and video (MP3/MPV), Ogg, AVI, ASF, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, and more. Playing of DVD and VCD media is also possible. Although primarily intended as a movie player, Xplayer can also play many audio formats.

For additional documentation on interactive use of Xplayer select the Help menu option. The menus allow access to some features not available through keybindings or command-line options.

OPTIONS¶

-?, --help

Output a longer help message then quit. (Any discrepancies between this man page and the output of xplayer --help should be reported as a documentation bug.)

--version

Output version information then quit.

The following options command an already-running instance of Xplayer to do something; they are useful for remote-control scripting. If Xplayer is not already running, these commands will launch a new instance of Xplayer but will not do anything further.

--play-pause

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to toggle between play and pause.

--play

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to play (has no effect if already playing)

--pause

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to pause (has no effect if already paused)

--next

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to skip to the next movie or chapter in the playlist.

--previous

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to return to the previous movie or chapter in the playlist.

--seek-fwd

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to seek forwards 15 seconds in the current movie.

--seek-bwd

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to seek backwards 15 seconds in the current movie.

--volume-up

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to raise the volume by 8%.

--volume-down

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to lower the volume by 8%.

--mute

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to toggle between muted and unmuted audio.

--fullscreen

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to toggle fullscreen mode.

--toggle-controls

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to toggle showing the controls.

--quit

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to quit.

--enqueue filename|URI

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to add a new stream to the playlist.

--replace filename|URI

Tell an already-running instance of Xplayer to play from the playlist.

KEYBINDINGS¶

Global keybindings for Xplayer:

Space play/pause
a cycle between aspect ratios
l cycle between audio/language tracks
s cycle between subtitle tracks (including the option to show none)
p toggle between play and pause
Esc exit full screen mode
f toggle full screen
h toggle display of on-screen controls
0 resize window to 50% original size
1 resize window to 100% original size
2 resize window to 200% original size
r zoom in the video
t zoom out the video
d start and stop the telestrator (drawing) mode
e erase the drawing
Left-arrow skip back 15 seconds
Right-arrow skip forward 60 seconds
Shift+Left-arrow skip back 5 seconds
Shift+Right-arrow skip forward 15 seconds
Ctrl+Left-arrow skip back 3 minutes
Ctrl+Right arrow skip forward 10 minutes
Up-arrow increase volume by 8%
Down-arrow decrease volume by 8%
[ decrease the playback speed by 10%
] increase the playback speed by 10%
{ half the playback speed
} double the playback speed
Backspace reset the playback speed to 100%
b jump back to previous chapter/movie in playlist
n jump to next chapter/movie in playlist
q quit
Ctrl+E eject the playing optical media
Ctrl+O open a new file
Ctrl+L open a new URI
F9 toggle display of the playlist
m show the DVD menu
c show the DVD chapter menu

FILES¶

/usr/lib/xplayer/plugins/

BUGS¶

Xplayer cannot play files using some proprietary codecs.

AUTHOR¶

Xplayer was written by Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>. This manual page was written by Andre Lehovich for the Debian Project.

DISTRIBUTION¶

The latest version of Xplayer may be downloaded from <http://projects.gnome.org/xplayer/>

SEE ALSO¶

xplayer-video-thumbnailer(1),

The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.