Totem player playback speed

Question

I'm trying to find out whether the default video player in Ubuntu 16.04 (Totem) can increase or decrease playback speed. Most of what I found on the web were old threads from 2009-2011.

There are some totem plugins on the Gnome website but none of them mention playback speed. I know VLC has this feature but it's been a bit slow and clunky on Ubuntu so I'd rather stick to the default player.

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 27 '18 at 23:19

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You can speed up or slow down videos in the Totem Video Player using a utility button at the bottom of the player.

^{Totem video player in Ubuntu 18.04}

edited Apr 27 '18 at 23:19

karel

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answered Apr 27 '18 at 16:04

Badruddin moiyyedi

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It's a good answer btw. – karel Nov 23 '18 at 05:19
The options aren't very useful, though. There should be a much wider range or a slider from (say) 0.1 to 10.0. – AlainD Nov 26 '19 at 10:27
This answer is still valid in Ubuntu 21.04. The icon on the button looks different, though. – Flimm Jul 24 '21 at 12:00

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 24 '17 at 14:57

There is nothing that can slow down or fasten up the videos in totem but you can use VLC's native slower/faster functionality even while working in other applications.

To do so:

open VLC -> tools -> preferences -> hotkeys
select "Global" where it shows "Any field"
set the fasten key-combination
set the slow-down key-combination
set the pause/play key-combination
click save
restart VLC

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and its done , namaste

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 20 '22 at 10:29

You can click [ and ] to control speed.

Build from source

first clone repo.

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem.git

git checkout your totem version.

git tag  // see all version tags
git checkout tags/{version}
vi src/plugins/variable-rate/totem-variable-rate-plugin.c
#define NUM_RATES 6  // i use only 6 types of speed. [0.75 to 3.0]
static struct {
float rate;
const char label;
const char id;
} rates[NUM_RATES] = {
    { 0.75,  NC_("playback rate", "× 0.75"),  "0_75" },
    { 1.0,  NC_("playback rate", "Normal"), "normal" },
    { 1.5,  NC_("playback rate", "× 1.5"),  "1_5" },
    { 2.0,  NC_("playback rate", "× 2.0"), "2_0" },
    { 2.5,  NC_("playback rate", "× 2.5"), "2_5" },
    { 3.0,  NC_("playback rate", "× 3.0"), "3_0" }
};

Write the speed you want.

Here my top speed is 3x. Totem only supports below or equal 2x speed. So I need to change one more place.

vi src/backend/bacon-video-widget.c
Function name - bacon_video_widget_set_rate()
if (new_rate < 0.5)
  return retval;
if (new_rate > 3) // <--- here you have to change.
  return retval;

Now build and install your system.

vi build.sh

create file bash.sh and save build script.

#!/bin/bash
builddir="build"
[ -d $builddir ] && sudo rm -rf $builddir
sudo meson setup $builddir
sudo ninja -C $builddir
sudo ninja -C $builddir install
sudo rm -rf $builddir

run script

bash build.sh

Screenshot

package: sudo apt install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev devlibpeas-1.0-0 libpeas-dev libclutter-gst-3.0-dev libgrilo-0.3-dev libgnome-desktop-3-dev — Tamil, Nov 13 '22 at 12:59

Totem player playback speed

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