Re: Does Dragon Player support MP4 on Fedora?

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 5:06 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2024-11-21 at 02:29 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I have an MP4 clip that I am trying to watch on F41. When I double
> > click the MP4, Dragon Player opens with two buttons: Play File and
> > Play Stream. (It does not show the MP4 that caused Dragon Player to
> > launch). I cannot seem to get the MP4 to play, even if I select Play
> > File and browse to the file that was previously double clicked.
> >
> > This seems to be the default setup of Fedora with KDE. I did not
> > manually install Dragon Player or change file associations. The Fedora
> > docs for Dragon Player are here, but they don't have much information:
> > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide_-_Playing_Multimedia#Dragon_Player>.
> >
> > Is Dragon Player supposed to play MP4 files? Or is there an incorrect
> > file association? Or maybe something else?
>
> Works for me, though personally, I use VLC. Note that 'mp4' (like
> 'avi', 'mpeg' etc.) is just a container format. You need the correct
> codecs to be able to play what's in it.

Ok, thanks.

> Try 'mediainfo' (in the Fedora repo) to see what's actually there.

Jeff
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