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First of all, Totem was renamed to Videos in the same context of renaming every Gnome core app into its main using purpose like the Epiphany renaming to Web for example.

There are also plenty of build fixes to make it possible to build with Wayland support and now we can truly say that Videos is “preparing” for the future. This is very important for both development and testing - feedback purposes. This is also the first release that is fully ported to Gstreamer 1.0.

Two obvious GUI changes are the hiding of the title bar when Videos is maximised and the moving of some menu items to the app menu like shown on the below screenshots:

Full changelog:

Plenty of build fixes to make it possible to build with Wayland support

Increase thumbnail size to 256 px

Movie player:

Rename to “Videos”

Hide titlebar when maximised

Move some menu items to the app menu

Command-line parsing bug fixes

Use Grilo to list DVDs and other optical media

Remove connection speed preferences

Stop DVD playback when disc is ejected

Fix ordering of the playlist after drag’n’drop

Backend:

Port to GStreamer 1.0

Add HTTP proxy support

Much improved error messages

Add variable rate playback

Use Clutter for the OSD

Disable visualisations by default

Animate rotations

Add av-offset support

Prepare the ground for chapter support in non-DVDs

Plugins:

Make screenshot UI-less, like in gnome-shell

Simplify the screensaver and browser plugin code

Remove publish and iPlayer plugins

Use Grilo 0.2

Better search sidebar

Add hook for site-specific user-agents

Add hook for custom subtitle selection through plugins

Move recent-files handling to a plugin

Since this is an unstable beta release, I suggest you wait till the release of Gnome 3.6 to meet the new Videos, but you can always compile it from source if you can’t wait!

Get Videos 3.5.90