FC11 , Deleting Dragon-Player

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 18:49:46 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 14:47 -0400, Jim wrote:
> F11 , Dragon player is part of the KDE-Multimedia package and it is set 
> to default when when playing Attached WMV videos in Thunderbird, and it 
> won't even play a mpeg or wmv file. Is there a way to remove Dragon 
> Player ?

You answered your own question. If it's part of another package, then no
(assuming you mean "remove without breaking stuff or having it
automatically reinstalled when I do an update").

> In thunderbird Pref. I changed in Attachments to use VLC to play mpeg , 
> wmv files.
> But when I click on a attached wmv file VLC won't play them. I have to 
> "save As" ,then play them from my home with VLC .

Sounds like you don't have the right codecs. Dragon uses the Xine
backend I think.

poc




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