On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:23 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 19 February 2009 22:00:06 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 20:17 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 February 2009 19:19:57 Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
> > > On Thursday 19 February 2009 19:05:00 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > I haven't heard of DragonPlayer. I see it has a web page, but
isn't
> > > > in the repos. Maybe I'll try it.
> > >
> > > Its in kdemultimedia.
> >
> > It looks too simple for words, but I've been really surprised with it. I
> > hadn't tried it on video until this thread, but I just did 'open
with'
> > and it played beautifully. Up to this I'd thought it was audio only.
>
> I tried it and did get some stuttering, but probably less than vlc.
>
> It's slightly less functional though (can't seem to play a directory
> that's a copy of a DVD, i.e. a bunch of VOB files etc.).
>
Yes, I did wonder about that, but haven't had time to ask around yet.
In fact it turns out it *can* play a directory, but from the
command-line. If you try it from the menu system it doesn't work.
poc