Dragon Player

[anonprivate]

Hi,

A few questions regarding Dragon Player.

How can I select more that one file so that they play sequentially?
What does 'Chapters' refer to?
Aspect Ratio does not seem to change perspective when playing?

Thanks

[woodsmoke]

Hi, I don't know about DragonPlayer specifics but at least one definition of a "chapter" is that is similar to what we, as non-programmers of multimedia would call a "track" on a cd of music or a DVD of a movie:

A system to define basic menus and partition data.

In this example a movie is split in different chapters. It could also just be an audio file (album) on which each track corresponds to a chapter.

00000ms - 05000ms : Intro
05000ms - 25000ms : Before the crime
25000ms - 27500ms : The crime
27500ms - 38000ms : The killer arrested
38000ms - 43000ms : Credits

If one goes to this site and "finds" chapter information it is verrraaahhhh verrrraaaahhh interestun!

http://www.matroska.org/technical/sp...ers/index.html

To try to address the third item, DragonPlayer was kind of moribund for a while and is now under more active development, it is a default player in some distros, but methinks that changing aspect ration possibly has not been yet addressed, again, do not know specifically.

Since Matroska is a "container" thing, it may just be that the DragonPlayer coders are somehow integrating it now, or possibly in the future in some way..

woodsmoke

[anonprivate]

Hi,

Thanks for responding.

I'll have another look at Dragon Player, and if I can't see how to achieve playlists etc, I will consider downloading VLC. I used to use this player in Vista. The problem will then be knowing which files in Muon to download, there are many with vlc connections.

Best wishes.

A

[claydoh]

just install the package called vlc. The system will download and install any other packages required. It will prompt you and tell you what it will grab and install before you proceed.

If you use Muon Software Center as opposed to Muon Package Manager, the confusion is lessened as Software Center focuses on applications, while the package manager has everything, including libraries, etc.

[vinnywright]

Hi,

Thanks for responding.

I'll have another look at Dragon Player, and if I can't see how to achieve playlists etc, I will consider downloading VLC. I used to use this player in Vista. The problem will then be knowing which files in Muon to download, there are many with vlc connections.

Best wishes.

A

a simpel

sudo apt install vlc

will get you a working vlc with all it needs,,,,,you can then add etra plugins as you need them ,,,like browser-plugin-vlc if you want vlc to handle media content in your web browser .

VINNY

[woodsmoke]

Buuuuuttt.....

there is a certain.........ambience........about DragonPlayer...........I remember when it was "Lycos Player" back in the whole "interface thingy windows thingy" what..........2002? It has a certain......."elan".........don't know...

I think that if you "kept this thread going"......maybe you can pick up some more knowledgabe people.............

DRAGON.......rises up.....against the regime.....rises up........and...even though it needs breastplates.....

[img]https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...n8K87vMLl1ZHyU[/img]

YOU...............YOU............could be an advocate.....

that pierces..............one............smalll........ ...

one smalll.................

breast scale...

Me..............I spent years on xmms.............not xmms2......... even wrote some posts about it at a certain big Linux place.........

so.............if you have a passion for it.............then...........go for it..............!!

be an advocate!!

woodkindofadoofsmoke

[anonprivate]

I think that VLC is a lot more popular than Dragon Player.

[woodsmoke]

popularity does not necessarily equate to functionality.....a DRAGON..............can............do a lot of stuff!



I personally have been......in the jungles.....and defied the dragon's breath.......the dragon may lay in wait....but.....sometimes....

laying there... among all those................ don't know...........things that MEN covet....gold..... acccccolades from men.......the dragon....

waits.....or it can...........turn on you ..the DRAGON..... can........

can play for you................

or..........

the Dragon..............

can not....

Do YOU...........just covet the gold.............?

REALLY....DO YOU COVET G9ODLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

or do you want...........to........contribute?

it izzz a dicey game....game as in gambon...but a game...sometimes............YOU............ask a question...........that has not been asked...

SOMETIMES...........YOU..........ASK A QUESTI0N\\

THAT HAS NOT BEENASKED...

GO TO BLUE HEAVEN
http://www.blueheavenkw.com/

AND COME BACK.........HERE,,,to Kubuntuheavennnn




woodgottomeetahobbitalongtimeagosmoke

[anonprivate]

I cannot see how to construct playlists in Dragon Player

[woodsmoke]

Ok....at the risk of offending you I will risk a question.\
\
Please list the specifications of your OS?

[anonprivate]

If you mean my pc, see my signature. If you mean my OS, then KUBUNTU 14.04 - 32bit

[claydoh]

Dragon does not support playlists

[anonprivate]

Thank you.

Much as I thought

I wonder why the developers did not include VLC as the default player? (I know that it is in Muon)

Might be best to install VLC and remove Dragon Player.

Best wishes

[claydoh]

Simple: We try to use KDE programs as much as is possible, to provide a well rounded set of default applications that stay within a certain size limit (for the install iso) Dragon has been the default for ages now, with few complaints. It does the job well for quite a few people, but anyone can easily install an alternative.
Also, as many Linux users side toward software freedom, VLC uses a number of non-free codecs.

[Rog132]

Default Kubuntu apps

Now and then the default Kubuntu application palette is suggested to the kubuntu developers: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ku...ry/006583.html

About the VLC: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ku...ry/006586.html

Rohan Garg rohan16garg at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 14:44:48 UTC 2013

Hi

Please not that we cannot ship some multimedia things like libav due
to patent issues as a result of which apps like vlc cannot be shipped...

(As claydoh told...)


The user's default applications can be something else...