Dragon player does not support many audio types?

[sotai]

I'm using the 64-bit RC1 of pclinuxos, KDE 4.9.5, dragon player same version. I can't hear sound in mkv videos with vorbis, and aac audio sounds garbled and cuts off in dragon player, but vlc works just fine (although it crashes at startup sometimes for some reason). Known bugs?

[agmg]

Maybe you're missing some essential codecs?
Try installing the meta-package task-multimedia

[sotai]

No, I'm afraid that's not it. It made no difference. Looks like it's a bug in the backend that dragon uses, since kaffeine suffers the same problem.

[µT6]

there is a kde 4.10 update

vlc is better to play multiple files but mkv is a pit i must say

[Old-Polack]

I'm using the 64-bit RC1 of pclinuxos, KDE 4.9.5, dragon player same version. I can't hear sound in mkv videos with vorbis, and aac audio sounds garbled and cuts off in dragon player, but vlc works just fine (although it crashes at startup sometimes for some reason). Known bugs?

Works fine here; Dragon Player on RC1, mkv video with aac audio. I don't know what you may be missing, or if it's a configuration issue, but here, these play on all my various players, with the exception of xine and Kaffeine, and there the sound works, but the video does not.

Dragon Player:



Smplayer:



VLC:

[sotai]

I've been tinkering around and it looks like there is no way around it, gstreamer just doesn't support mkv properly, so I will have to quit on dragon and kaffeine. As I said, VLC has no problems and neither does mplayer. I would prefer mplayer2 since that's what I usually use on any distro. I tried compiling it, but it looks like vdpau acceleration doesn't work and that's the very reason I use mplayer. I suspect it's because the libvdpau version is too old. Maybe it will work once it gets upgraded in pclos. I know mplayer works, but mplayer2 is better in many ways, so I think including mplayer2 in the repos would be a good idea. Can we suggest new packages for inclusion somewhere?

[daniel]

Search for xine-plugins ala xine-flac, and xine-faad ...

Edit:
Mplayer2 is without mencoder...

[menotu]

I've been tinkering around and it looks like there is no way around it, gstreamer just doesn't support mkv properly, so I will have to quit on dragon and kaffeine. As I said, VLC has no problems and neither does mplayer. I would prefer mplayer2 since that's what I usually use on any distro. I tried compiling it, but it looks like vdpau acceleration doesn't work and that's the very reason I use mplayer. I suspect it's because the libvdpau version is too old. Maybe it will work once it gets upgraded in pclos. I know mplayer works, but mplayer2 is better in many ways, so I think including mplayer2 in the repos would be a good idea. Can we suggest new packages for inclusion somewhere?

There is a New Package Request area but I believe the requester needs to have a minimum of 10 posts.

I'm unsure if the following link is open to you (yet) but it details the "rules" required when asking for a new package.

New Package Requests Rules ***if you want to make a request read and digest***

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,102893.0.html

Additionally there is the CHECK the License or EULA for your proposed package asking the poster to check whether a request is redistributable

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,104161.0.html
 
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Is it possible to extract the  "media" files from within the MKV container and then play it that way?  Of course that does mean an extra step  for you which may not be to your liking.

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Edit:

Whilst on the topic of MKV files the following post (about VLC 2.0.6)  mentions

MKV playback handles Matroska v4, and regressions have been corrected when playing AVI files with palleted codecs. There are also updated codecs and third-party libraries which are said to offer general improvements all round, including DVD playback.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,115164.msg981376.html#msg981376