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Totem is a MediaPlayer which can use either the Xine or GStreamer video libraries as a backend.

Totem's major strength over its competitors is its sane GUI. Contrast Xine, whose interface is such a disaster it should convince people that "skinning" is a huge MisFeature?. Tring to imitate the operation of analog devices doesn't help usability either. Jamie Zawinski's rant about Linux video player usability is harsh, but valid.

Totem will become the GNOME MediaPlayer of choice come 2.6, when GStreamer hits 1.0.

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