Dragon Player "Jaggies"

[Georgetoon]

I like Dragon Player.  But, for some reason, the image presented from a DVD movie has jagged edges.  Title graphics and certain shaped have these little jagged edges that are not present in Xine, SMPlayer, etc.  Those players present a smoother image...no jagged edges.

Anyone else notice this and is there a setting to correct it?

[T6]

last nigh i used dragon and couldn't handle a rmvb video, also didn't allowed me to select audio language or subtitles so i couldn't test it extensively

i couldn't find options in dragon for video so i think it could be that you are using kde4 desktop effects or compiz and dragon doesn't like it but in general dragon feels limited in many ways

[phyerboss]

Dragon plays terribly on this machine.

Theres no desktop effects at all enabled. But the video gets extremely "jumpy" and flickers around alot. Like a bad stop-motion flick. It'll keep the sound in sync. But, the image is distorted. Hard to describe it. Think of a 12 frame gif animation thats stuck cycling frames 3-7 over and over again for 12secs before advancing to the next scene. Only to keep cycling the frames of the next point over again.

Heck, Dolphin's built in player does better than this. So, I just opt not to use dragon at all. Sorry, its no real help to solving it Georgetoon. But, you're not alone as far as issues with it goes.

[Crow]

I uninstalled Dragon Player, didn't work well

[AndrzejL]

last nigh i used dragon and couldn't handle a rmvb video, also didn't allowed me to select audio language or subtitles so i couldn't test it extensively

i couldn't find options in dragon for video so i think it could be that you are using kde4 desktop effects or compiz and dragon doesn't like it but in general dragon feels limited in many ways

I couldn't agree more. What are Your thoughts about SMPlayer? So far the best Video Player in the repos IMHO...

Andy

[phyerboss]

I uninstalled Dragon Player, didn't work well

I know this sounds dumb...but, we can actually do that? Theres nothing that needs it?! Awesome! All this time I was under the impression that Dolphin's little built in preview player used it^^

AndrzejL-
Personally I liked and always preferred "KMPlayer" over all others. But, even though I see it available for KDE4. I dont see it in the repos anymore. Which makes me wonder will it pop up for 2010.
 

[Georgetoon]

I like Dragon Player.  The big advantage is , regardless of which drive I drop the DVD in, DP finds it.  The other programs like SMPlayer, get confused.  But they play the DVD much smoother. Picture looks nicer.

The DVD confusion was discussed in the thread:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,67897.0.html

And now I find that surfing to a directory in SMPlayer doesn't always work for some reason.

[T6]

"I know this sounds dumb...but, we can actually do that? Theres nothing that needs it?!"

afik no

"Personally I liked and always preferred "KMPlayer" over all others. "

i deeply hate this app(if such thing is possible)

it is the ugliest app i could ever use in my life(in every aspect), when i had mandriva(5 - 6 years) and i couldn't add or change easily the player, it was the worst thing i had in my pc

when i had pclinux with mplayer or any other player, the level of happiness jumped to the sky 

smplayer, mplayer and others can be configured to search for the disc in a determined drive

[dobbs]

I prefer any version of MPlayer/SMPlayer/GMPlayer/KMPlayer to Dragon player....

[Georgetoon]

smplayer, mplayer and others can be configured to search for the disc in a determined drive

I've tried it time and again and it does not work.  In SMPlayer, I open Preferences and mark teh first drive as /dev/dvd and the second drive as /dev/cdrom. I can place a DVD in drive one, and it plays in SMPlyer. I eject and drop it into drive to and open SMPlayer...nothing.

I sure would like to figure it out. Because as i originally posted, SMPlayer plays the movies a lot smoother and a bit clearer than Dragon Player