[Bug 1572232] Re: Dragon Player not playing DVD

warren wkclemmons at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 21:39:40 UTC 2016


Do I need to mark this bug as invalid?
I got an audio cd to work on dragon player but no dvd video.
I generally refuse to install the restricted extras.

Thanks
On 04/20/2016 04:49 PM, Flames_in_Paradise wrote:
> Dragon player is a simple solution that is offered by upstream (KDE). It
> is preferred not to vary to much from the original KDE packaging. Just
> take it as a basic. FOSS offers choices.
>
> VLC is easy installable via package-management (if someone wants/needs
> more). I think everybody has his/her own priorities. I've been
> liking&using VLC for years, especially since I like programs that are
> extremely configurablé. Even though I've beeen using the SM-Player in
> parallel, since it offers some advantages
>
> Like you, I 've also installed the MPV-player (no volume-leveller, my
> bad :-), thus even less than dragon-player). Especially in conjunction
> with a firefox-addon   mpv-youtube-dl-binding  it offers unique
> advantages like no other package has. I don not like high CPU-loads.  In
> german there is a term "eierlegende Wollmilchsau" which is hardly
> existent. This translates like "egg-/wool-/ -milk supplying animal"
> Reminds me of early days in distro-hopping. Like with most things in
> life there are advantages and disadvantages, which you can weigh
> personally, but it's hard to cover that for a wider audience. A brother
> of mine is not very much into software and he gets along pretty well
> with Dragon-player, it fills his basic needs.
>
>> Why is VLC not installed by default since the restricted packages are not required?
> Guessing: Licence issues in some countries. (Did say so before.)
>
> Does DVD-playback work  for you now?
>

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