[kde-freebsd] Re: Dragon Player won't play DVD, but VLC does

[Steven Friedrich]

On Thursday 18 November 2010 8:19:21 pm Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2010 20:59:11 Rusty Nejdl wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:28:57 -0500, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> > > I'm
> > 
> > on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE using 4.5.3. When I open DragonPlayer there is a
> > 
> > > "Play Disc" button. I've successfully used that to play a DVD.
> > 
> > (Pirates of the
> > 
> > > Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.)
> > 
> > Haven't checked to see if DragonPlayer comes up as an option when I
> > insert the
> > 
> > > DVD yet.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > DMK
> > 
> > I hate to say it, but I was
> > able to reproduce this. I had to comment out the cd0 line in /etc/fstab
> > to have hald handle automounting the dvd. Once I did, I was able to use
> > the device feature in KDE to launch one of 4 actions. Launching in
> > dragon player opened it up but didn't do anything. I clicked Play Disc a
> > few times and it just sat there. I chose the open in Kaffeine option and
> > the DVD opened right up (Ghostwriter). Dragon simply shows "No media
> > loaded" in the bottom left. Running from console produces no interesting
> > debug lines. I can get dragon player to play other files on the
> > harddrive without issue.
> 
> What Phonon backend are you guys using?
> 
> I've just been able to play a DVD here by clicking on the "Play Disc"
> button (I'm not running KDE from ports, though).
> 
> The Xine backend shows me the main menu and everything goes on smoothly,
> while the GStreamer backend seeks directly to the first track and does not
> allow me to seek.

How do you know which backend will be used? Do you select it or is it based on 
source media type?