Dragon Player in kdereview, proposed move into kdemultimedia

[Robert Knight]

Hi,

> KDE Multimedia currently lacks a video player. As far as I know,
> Konqueror does not have a KPart for playing videos either

Is it also suitable for playing sound files linked to by or embedded
in web pages?  For example, ogg media used in Wikipedia articles?

Regards,
Robert.

On 07/01/2008, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just moved Dragon Player into kdereview. Dragon Player is a
> simple video player, the KDE4 version of Max Howell's Codeine. Thanks
> to Phonon, it lacks most of the bugs of Codeine. :) But like Codeine
> it designed to be easy to play movie files and DVDs, with new features
> designed to all be unobtrusive. It also has a video-playing KPart.
>
> KDE Multimedia currently lacks a video player. As far as I know,
> Konqueror does not have a KPart for playing videos either. Dragon
> Player would fill this niche for KDE Multimedia in KDE 4.1.
>
> I do plan on making a stable release for KDE 4.0 distros in a month or
> so, will this be a problem? There shouldn't be 4.1 changes by then,
> I'll just make tarball and accept that there probably won't be too
> many translations. Arguably it perhaps should just moved into
> extragear and then kdemultimedia later, but this seems unnecessarily
> complicated for just one release.
>
> After that releasing with the rest of KDE makes a lot of sense, since
> its basically just a little wrapper around Phonon (only ~2500 LOC).
>
> Following http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/SVN_Guidelines I did the following:
> *has up-to-date user docs
> *2 Krazy errors, one isn't a problem (using QUrl due to Phonon) and
> the other relates to Windows so I can't test
> *it is completely translatable (at least I think so)
>
> Ian Monroe
>