
Copyright © 2004 Mike Diehl
Copyright © 2007 Ian Monroe
Dragon Player is a simple video player by KDE.
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If you start Dragon Player from the application launcher or use (Ctrl+O) from the toolbar or from the menu this window is displayed:

There are three ways to play a video file:
opens the file dialog and allows you to select a file to play.
to play a CD or DVD.
opens a dialog to enter an address of some multimedia stream.
Double click on an entry in the play list with recently opened files to start playing it. The context menu of the play list shows actions to remove a selected entry or clear the whole play list. Any file you played will be automatically added to the list.

While playing a movie, you can enter full screen mode. This uses the entire monitor to display the movie. Moving the mouse shows a toolbar at the top of the screen in full screen mode. Toggle the full screen mode using the menu, the action in the toolbar, double click on the video or use the shortcut F.
Select this action from the menu to adjust Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation. These settings are stored together with the playback position for each video file. This enables you resume playing a video with the selected video settings and the position where you stopped playing.
- Navigation
The shortcut PgUp brings you 10% forward / + 10 seconds forward and PgDown brings you 10% backward / - 10 seconds backward. Use → (R) to switch to the video menu and select another chapter to play. → (Space) allows you to pause and resume playback if a movie is loaded. → (S) stops playback. Go to the previous or next chapter of a video with (,) or (.) from the menu.
If you play videos with a hidden toolbar, you can use the shortcut M to mute or unmute the sound; and the shortcut V to toggle the display of the volume slider right to the video.
- →
This menu lets you pick the aspect ratio of the playing movie. The aspect ratio is width of movie compared to the height.
- and
These menu items from the menu are active if there are any subtitles or additional audio channels (e.g. with different languages) available from the currently playing movie. Note that it may take a few seconds of playback before the subtitles or audio channels become available.

Dragon Player
Program copyright 2004 Max B. Howell (max.howell AT methylblue.com)
Program copyright 2007 Ian A. Monroe (imonroe AT kde.org)
Documentation copyright 2004 Mike Diehl (madpenguin8 AT yahoo.com)
Documentation copyright 2007 Ian Monroe (imonroe AT kde.org)
This documentation is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
This program is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.