Is there an equalizer for Totem MPlayer?

I don't know about Totem, but there is one in xmms (if you like the spartanistic style) and amarok (if you want something way fancyer than iTunes). It might be necessary for you to add the kubuntu repository to install amarok, but I know it works under gnome (back when I had a rush of lacking faith and was running gnome for a while ;) ).

The "M" in Totem MPlayer stands for Movie.

If you want a graphic equaliser for when you play music, you can use Exaile or VLC. Both are available via Add/Remove.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Exaile's equilizer seemed pretty lame -- could hardly hear the difference between two extreme settings.

VLC is indeed superb, but on some of my files there is jitter.

I've had loads of trouble trying to get xmms to work.

Amarok is rather a system hog but honestly haven't tried it recently.

Playing variety of file types: mp3, mp4, mod, xm, flac, etc.

System is Mint 5 via Ubuntu Hardy (8.04), 2GB RAM, AMD 64 3200+ processor

Is you question solved?

Hi,
concerning jitter, try this, tell apps to use X11 as video output.
e.g. VLC
navigate to preferences -> video -> output module
You may choose X11 from dropdown menu which appears.

Option system wide, go to system -> preferences -> Multimedia System or something like that (command is gstreamer-propertiers in a terminal), you'll find a video section and choose for video output X11, this should concern all video players.

If this doesn't help, it could be a video card or/and driver problem.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Video

Totem or Gnome in general have no equalizer, VLC does.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html

Thanks Sam,

Followed your suggestions. VLC is such a sophisticated app; I really prefer it to anything else! So I chose X11 for video output and also made the system wide choice. Still jitters a little. Using the proprietary NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver enabled via the Mint (Elyssa, ver 5.0) control center hardware driver section. The audio default output is halaudiosink udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_59_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0. Been having audio problems since installation of the distribution some months ago: If I do not start an audio application soon after booting up, audio will not be available at all. Syslog gives the following message: pulseaudio[5949]: module-alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy. But I expand. Suspect this may be a larger problem connected with the distribution. Previous version of Mint, Daryna (4.0) did not have this problem.

I'm going to click Problem Solved even though the truth is somewhere between Solved and Still Need an Answer!

Pilot,
subject equalizer for Totem is solved, according to there is none.
For the two other subjects please open new questions, means these 'Still jitters a little' and 'Audio not available'.
Please describe specifics, steps what has been tried, what has been expected and what happened instead. This will lead to attention of more users which might have the same difficulties and also with experience on this subjects, thanks very much.

You could use a Pulseaudio Equalizer, as per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

the use of VLC cannot be an official solution because it is not integrated by default in the installation. The default audio player (although it's not designed for that) is totem.

If the official gnome audio player is totem (as indicated by a default installation) then it should include the equalizer unless other software is provided by default.