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Re: Sigh...
by jospoortvliet on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @10:38

I like none of the players you mention, except KMPlayer for playing in Konqi. Codeine/Dragonplayer rules them all in terms of just playing movies.

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Re: Sigh...
by Mark Kretschmann on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @10:45

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by Emil Sedgh on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @10:57

another +1

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by Vide on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @12:00

+1
moreover, the default KDE multimedia player should be straight, simple, quick to load, and Dragon Player has everything

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by Richard Lionhard on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @13:29

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by Leo S on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @16:20

Absolutely. I have no need for any of the features in the other video players. Codeine/Dragon Player does what I need it to do without getting in the way. Once in a blue moon I fire up VLC for a stubborn video file that xine has issues with or to get at the slow motion feature.

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by Jeremy on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @23:14

Dragon player is one of the best/simple video players, but are they going to keep that name? Come one, Dragon Player, thats more childish then something that starts with K.

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Rule #43
by sebas on Sunday 27/Jan/2008, @10:26

No Dot story without someone having a different opinion about some name. :~)

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Re: Sigh...
by MamiyaOtaru on Sunday 27/Jan/2008, @13:16

Is there an easy way to switch the audio track or turn subtitles on and off? Is there a way to record whatever internet stream it is playing? Without those features I would respectfully have to stick with Kaffeine.

It would then be a case of "90 percent of people only use 10 percent of the features, therefore we can cut the other 90 percent of the features and still keep 90 percent of the people happy" backfiring, since the set of features people uses differs from person to person.

I really do miss the days when KDE was about enabling, and giving features, and allowing users the opportunity to ignore them, but at least they *are there* for those who do use them. If my software is going to ascribe to gnome philosophies, I might as well use Gnome.

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Re: Sigh...
by spaceboy on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @01:23

You know, there's a reason it's so common to hear of application "extensions" or "plug-ins" these days.

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Kaffeine is still a good choice
by Ian Monroe on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @09:40

You can switch audio tracks and subtitles. I do plan on adding any feature that's that's make or break in being able to watch a movie. Having subtitles for a foreign film would be one of those. :)

Recording streams is actually a (somewhat hidden) feature Codeine had, so who knows I might add it back sometime in the future.

But really, no one is taking away your Kaffeine. How does having a simple video player mean that omgbbq KDE hates features. Kaffeine is alive and well in KDE extragear and I expect it to be back ready to serve their current users and new users who just expect more features out of their video player.

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by Goran J on Sunday 27/Jan/2008, @02:32

I haven't been able to test Dragon, but I really like Codeine for playing movies from DVD. The no-frills interface makes it nearly perfect for this.
To be *really* useful for playing compressed movies, it has to be able to change sound sync on the fly, though.
I also think you have to be able to skip forward-backwards and a few other things like that.
But as I said, I haven't tried Dragon - maye those things are already in in.

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by Ian Monroe on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @09:42

You can use the slider to skip forward and backward, just use the slider. True for Codeine and Dragon Player. If you mean in DVD chapters, that is a feature that I plan on adding in the future.

I don't get the point about changing sound sync though... I've never had this problem.

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by Goran J on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @01:25

> You can use the slider to skip forward and backward, just use the slider.

Yes, of course, but it's much more precise to use the arrow keys to jump a few seconds backwards and forwards. Especially when you don't use a regular mouse, but a small trackball :)

> I don't get the point about changing sound sync though...

It's a rather common problem with .avi files. I don't know what causes it, though.

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