Hi Everyone,
I have an MP4 clip that I am trying to watch on F41. When I double click the MP4, Dragon Player opens with two buttons: Play File and Play Stream. (It does not show the MP4 that caused Dragon Player to launch). I cannot seem to get the MP4 to play, even if I select Play File and browse to the file that was previously double clicked.
This seems to be the default setup of Fedora with KDE. I did not manually install Dragon Player or change file associations. The Fedora docs for Dragon Player are here, but they don't have much information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide_-_Playing_Multimedia#Dragon_Player.
Is Dragon Player supposed to play MP4 files? Or is there an incorrect file association? Or maybe something else?
Jeff
On Thu, 2024-11-21 at 02:29 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have an MP4 clip that I am trying to watch on F41. When I double click the MP4, Dragon Player opens with two buttons: Play File and Play Stream. (It does not show the MP4 that caused Dragon Player to launch). I cannot seem to get the MP4 to play, even if I select Play File and browse to the file that was previously double clicked.
This seems to be the default setup of Fedora with KDE. I did not manually install Dragon Player or change file associations. The Fedora docs for Dragon Player are here, but they don't have much information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide_-_Playing_Multimedia#Dragon_Player.
Is Dragon Player supposed to play MP4 files? Or is there an incorrect file association? Or maybe something else?
Works for me, though personally, I use VLC. Note that 'mp4' (like 'avi', 'mpeg' etc.) is just a container format. You need the correct codecs to be able to play what's in it.
Try 'mediainfo' (in the Fedora repo) to see what's actually there.
poc
On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 5:06 AM Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 2024-11-21 at 02:29 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have an MP4 clip that I am trying to watch on F41. When I double click the MP4, Dragon Player opens with two buttons: Play File and Play Stream. (It does not show the MP4 that caused Dragon Player to launch). I cannot seem to get the MP4 to play, even if I select Play File and browse to the file that was previously double clicked.
This seems to be the default setup of Fedora with KDE. I did not manually install Dragon Player or change file associations. The Fedora docs for Dragon Player are here, but they don't have much information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide_-_Playing_Multimedia#Dragon_Player.
Is Dragon Player supposed to play MP4 files? Or is there an incorrect file association? Or maybe something else?
Works for me, though personally, I use VLC. Note that 'mp4' (like 'avi', 'mpeg' etc.) is just a container format. You need the correct codecs to be able to play what's in it.
Ok, thanks.
Try 'mediainfo' (in the Fedora repo) to see what's actually there.
Jeff
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