Ubuntu Networking :: Controlling Totem Over TCP/IP / Send Signals To Totem?
Feb 22, 2010
I have a desktop hooked up to a router and plugged into my TV. I like to run Totem and have videos running full screen on my TV. I would like to control that Totem using my laptop (connected to the same router over wifi). How would I go about doing that? I connected to my desktop using SSH and tried to send signals to Totem, but nothing worked. I tried using VNC, and that was ineffective as well.
We all know how to kill multi process but if we want to send different signals to different process like to stop,-9,to hungup simultaneously at the same time then how we will do it,is there any particular command to do it.
I just downloaded a new version of totem movie player because the older one had a bug while taking a screenshot which has been reported already I saw.I have the tar.gz with a lot of files in it, so how to install it easily?
I've edited the default file list association; sudo gedit/etc/gnome/defaults.list replacing all the totem.desktop with vlc.desktop (ctrl+H). however I don't understand how but VLC opens only certain files such as .flac, .wmv but not .mp3, .avi
i have movie player (totem) and as an alternate vlc. both will play store bought encrypted dvds very well etc. however, movie player when on "videos" for instance will frequently flag the search operation with one/ two of the following:
"error looking up uri/ cannot resolve host name" or "error looking up video uri" automount failed: mount point for org.gtk.vfs; mountpoint.http already running" or "an error occurred location not found"
it is difficult to clear and unstick these red flags. audio from rhythmbox music player is awesome. what dependent file or plug-in am i lacking or need to delete?
I installed my DVB-T board and I can watch TV using VLC and my channels.conf file. I saved a copy of channels.conf as ~/.gstreamer-0.10/dvb-channels.conf but when I start Totem (GStreamer ed.), I don't see a "Watch TV" option under the "Movie" menu.
I have a dual monitor configuration. Monitor one is the embedded Seiko panel on my laptop (resolution = 1920X1200). Monitor two is an emachines something-or-other (resolution = 1440X900).
I am running 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 on a Dell XPS M1530. Graphics card is an NVidia 8600M GT.
When I log in to my account, the first thing that I do is activate the external monitor.
If I try to launch Totem (Movie Player) from the dock, I encounter an X screen error where the output on my laptop's screen reflects that of the external monitor, resolution and all. Because the external monitor is at a lower resolution, this takes up only a portion of the embedded screen; the rest of the space looks like the output has been tiled.
Here is a screenshot:Screenshot.jpg
If I close Totem and reconfigure my monitors (I usually just change the resolution on the embedded screen from Auto to 1920x1200), then I'm back to the proper output.
If I try to launch Totem after I have reconfigured my monitors, I do not encounter the same problem. If I log out and log back in, the problem can be reproduced.
When I first installed Ubuntu 10.04, my XF86 buttons worked perfectly with Totem. I could pause, stop, fast forward, etc with no problems. I would prefer to use VLC or something as my media player, but I could not figure out how to get these media buttons to work so I just stuck with Totem.
Well, within the last couple of weeks my XF86 buttons have run into some issues. If Totem is in the foreground, they all still work perfectly, but if Totem is minimized or not the focus window the buttons no longer interact with it in any way. My volume keys still control the system volume with no problems. If I am working in emacs and I press the play/pause button emacs will print the error "<XF86AudioPlay> is undefined". So I know that the system is getting the commands, but they aren't being sent to the right windows. Is this an X11 problem? gstreamer?
Thought I would post this up here, because I've been searching for a solution, and not found one online:Problem description When playing both .mp4 and .rm files, the sound played fine, but the display remained black.
Solution Open the Configuration Editor (run gconf-editor in the terminal). Navigate to system > gstreamer > 0.10 > default, double-click on videosink and change the setting from autovideosink to ximagesink
I am using ubuntu 10.04 having totem 2.30.0 based on gstreamer 0.10.28I recently discovered an option in side bar bbc (apart from properties,.....,playlist)It downloaded 5-6MB of data for playlist then parsed them & displayed a list of interesting programmes of around 0.5 hour duration.
How can I download these mp3 files ? I could not find working radio at URL...
I am having a strange problem. file.avi is in host:/host:/ is mounted in client:/ via sftp on evolutionwhile sitting on client: double clicking on file.avi opens Totem which starts to stream and only shows a blank screen (audio is fine).Copying file.avi to client:/ and then playing it on totem is fine, so it is not a gstreamer issue. I would doubt this is bandwidth as it should just buffer longer, this is over a wireless network.
Whenever I'm playing a video in Totem, if I use the navigation bar thing to go to a different time in the video, the video output freezes. Audio continues, but video stops. If I pause the video first, then use the navigation thing, then click play again, it works fine. Same happens for music; the visualizer freezes if I drag the navigation thing.
Edit: If I put it on repeat, when the video or music repeats the video output freezes also.
I was able to watch videos that had h.264, but now I can't. when I play the same video from before, it tells me I don't have the codec installed, but when I try to have it installed:
So there's just one DVD (Narnia) that won't play on my Ubuntu machine using Totem: other DVDs play (I've installed libdvdread4 and libdvdcss2 like a good boy) and non-pulseaudio players like VLC play it properly. If I completely remove and kill pulseaudio, it plays in totem fine. It gets to the language selection screen and I select English, but as soon as any sound is involved it doesn't play. Clicking Go --> DVD menu causes Totem to hang. I don't want to be uninstalling pulseaudio, and VLC player is a bit complex for the mother.
The output of totem: Code: marcus@margit-laptop:~$ totem libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.1.3 libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access libdvdnav: DVD Title: libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 43D1F9FE (GEAR): libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative): libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/marcus/.dvdnav/.map' ..... marcus@margit-laptop:~$
Note that before the last line, Totem does absolutely nothing. It just sits their. Like it's trying to devour my soul or something.
I recently upgraded to 10.10 and installed ktorrent at the same time. After the upgrade whenever I try to open up and file or folder for that matter totem tries to open them. Totem is acting like the default app for all the files on my computer. I tried uninstalling an reinstalling both totem and ktorrent and I still have the same problem.
My totem media player hangs a lot.The video playback is not smooth ..as if i am on a very old computer and believe me i am not. though everything runs smooth on vlc . but i'd still prefer totem if it can be fixed.i running ubuntu 10.10 , the graphic card i have is Nvidea 8600GTM
When I try playing DVD's in Media Player/Totem the video is choppy and does not sync with the audio. When I started looking at it in detail I see Totem is using up 95% of the CPU which kind of explains it doesn't it. But it still shouldn't be doing this. I then tried the same DVD's using Gnome Media Player and all is fine, perfect video/audio and normal CPU usage.
I recently switched over to Debian Squeeze and now that I'm over the transition shock I'm starting to enjoy it a lot more than I thought I would. One little thing that is very irritating, though not show-stopping, is the fact that I cannot change the default media player in GNOME.Totem I just can't stand it for some reason and I would like to just remove it. So I whip out my'apt-get remove totem' only to see that Totem is tied to a number of GNOME components that I want to keep. Now why a media player is so intertwined with GNOME I have no idea, at least that would be appropriate to express here.Normally to change my default media player I right click on a media file, open with, remember this app for this type of file, and then I'm done. I also tried using the 'Preferred Applications' option under the 'System --> Preferences' menu with no success.
As I said this problem isn't a show-stopper but it is blankety-blankin' annoying. Any thoughts on how to resolve this would be appreciated. I have spent some time searching online but to no avail. Although I no absolutely nothing about software development I can only hope that this is a bug and that the GNOME developers didn't actually intend this. If it were intentional it would seem analogous to Windows 7 in that there is no way to remove IE from the system. Oh but you can disable it and hide it from the menu. . .
As my exploration through Fedora is going quite well (and due to recent problems that I haven't been able to fix in Ubuntu, it's drawing me to Fedora even more), I still have another small question. I listen to basslover.de constantly, and when I click on the Windows Media Player button to start that stream, Totem starts getting picky about my connection. We have two wireless networks (for a specific reason), and whenever I pick the faster router, Totem happily plays, but refuses to play on the slower one. I know it's not an internet problem because I can play from either network in Ubuntu, and I also updated my wireless in Fedora with a new set of madwifi drivers. Is this something I can fix?
EDIT: Also, if this isn't clear, Totem is playing the stream inside Firefox. EDIT 2: Hmm, strange. It suddenly worked on the slower connection if I changed DHCP settings to Manual and then gave in details along with the Google Public DNS servers. However, this works in Ubuntu while on DHCP.
I installed F13 beta yesterday, added RPMFusion's repos, updated and everything seemed ok, when the time came to add mp3 and video support I did the same as on F11, simply tried playing some mp3 and a rmvb video and after being asked to install missing codecs everything would work but! it didn't work for video, although it installed a bunch of files the rmvb video still won't play.
For now I installed mplayer and I can watch my videos alright, I also remember that on another opportunity the same happened to me and after a couple of updates the problem was fixed so no biggies but maybe someone can give me some advice on what to try to fix this? like remove a certain package and try reinstalling it.
V.L.C. and all others - but Totem - video players that I have installed have audio out of sync. This occurs in both D.V.D. and .mkv & .avi. I had this problem with V.L.C. 1.1.10 & now with 1.1.11. I do not think that this is a problem with V.L.C. since I have had the same issue occur with gnome-mplayer. I tried to downgrade gstreamer*, and that did not correct my problem. It shouldn't be a problem with libdvd* since the problem still occurs with files on my drive. Handbrake doesn't fail to rip D.V.D correctly.
Because of all of this I figure that it must be a system library that Totem and HandBrake don't use ( or bundle most likely in the case of HandBrake ).I am using Fedora 15 x86_64 with all updates to date.
Have very recently installed OPEN S on my PC. The DVD player( why is it called TOTEM? ) won't work. It asks for some plugins without saying which ones exactly. Have tried to follow some links it suggested but to no avail (me being too bleeding brainless, I presume). Am sure that eventually will find out the solution but for the time being stuck and not able to watch some of Hollywood's greatest masterpieces on my machine.
