When using a gui file browser to look at media files, it is possible to play the file using the players announcing support for the given file format. For a novise GUI user, this is often the only way to play media content. But the dragonplayer desktop file is lacking several mime types for file formats it understand, and do not show up when trying to play them. See https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport for a list of mime types announced by other video players and how dragonplayer relates to this list.
Ah, forgot to mention that this is also reported as Debian bug https://bugs.debian.org/852054 .
Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version? If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!
[Justin Zobel] > Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a > while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if > you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version? Given that "reproducing" is to just look at the .desktop file and its content, I fail to understand what more I can do to help you here.
Which ones would you like to see?
[Harald Sitter] > Which ones would you like to see? I most use VLC, so my wishes are really not relevant here. A more interesting question is which for formats do the developers want dragonplayer to show up as an alternative, or would the developers want dragonplayer to play out of the box on Linux. I do not know the answer to that question, but I see that dragonplayer is announcing the smallest number for formats, and a lot fewer than the formats it is capable of handling. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
All the ones that are listed. That is why they are listed.
[Harald Sitter] > All the ones that are listed. That is why they are listed. Not quite sure if I am able to parse these two sentences correct, but I read it to mean that the developers of dragonplayer only want the program to handle the MIME types listed in the .desktop file today, and not any others, like application/ogg, video/dv and video/mkv. Thank you for the clarification This is a useful datapoint to have. :)