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

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

At Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:30:42 -0500,
Steven Friedrich wrote:
> 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?

You use the Phonon KCM: go to System Settings/Multimedia and choose
the backend there. Alternatively, you can type 'kcmshell4 phonon' on
the terminal.