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
