Sunday, 25 November 2007

New Totem feature(s)

Totem got a few new features recently, courtesy of new contributors (which is a nice thing to see).

The first one to get committed was the tracker-powered video search sidebar, by Javier Goday. Unfortunately, I don't have any nice screenshots as tracker seems to want to index everything but my videos directory.

The other one is a long standing feature request, with the patch provided by Kamil Pawlowski, adding a menu item to select a text subtitle for video files. This means you can get subtitles for your legally downloaded video files, with the typos free of charge.


Update: Everybody loves screenshots. Here's one for the video search feature:

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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous25 November 2007 at 10:33

    i know it's unrelated but i was wondering is there a way to bookmark a particular a particular time in a video so for example you could replay your favorite moments in a football match without having to seek until you get there

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  2. Unknown25 November 2007 at 10:49

    Now it just needs support for changing the color of subtitles. That would be really great.

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  3. Anonymous25 November 2007 at 16:20

    Cool, but could it be possible to also add DVD support ? ;) See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476149 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/41335

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  4. Bastien Nocera25 November 2007 at 16:22

    DVD works with the xine-lib backend. It's a GStreamer bug that DVDs aren't handled...

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  5. Anonymous25 November 2007 at 18:04

    Any way to specify the subtitle encoding type? I assume it defaults to UTF-8 but if the subtitle has some other enc type then they're not displayed very nicely :( I'm using the gstreamer backend.

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  6. Bastien Nocera25 November 2007 at 18:12

    > Any way to specify the subtitle encoding type?

    Did you try looking in the prefs? It's been there for a year and a half...

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  7. Anonymous25 November 2007 at 18:44

    The only Encoding I see there is UTF-8... how is the list populated? It could just be a bug of my distro (opensolaris).

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  8. Bastien Nocera25 November 2007 at 18:57

    > The only Encoding I see there is UTF-8... how is the list populated? It could just be a bug of my distro (opensolaris).

    File a bug, this isn't a support forum...

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  9. Anonymous26 November 2007 at 09:45

    Selecting subtitles is great and a necessity. Video search however sounds like feature creep. Shouldn't search be a separate app? Should every app really have it's own search?

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  10. khelidan26 November 2007 at 23:35

    I love it when a plan comes together! :D

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