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Dragon Player vs FFplay

Dragon Player

apps.kde.org

FFplay

ffmpeg.org

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FigureDragon PlayerFFplay
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open sourceYes—
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
Plans published20
Spec score · Video Player Software8.5 (#4)7.6 (#27)
Playback controlsUsers can click to play or pause and double-click to enter or exit full screen.While playing, users can pause, mute, toggle fullscreen, and quit with keyboard shortcuts.
PurposeDragon Player is a video player focused on simplicity and playing video files and streams.FFplay is a simple, portable media player that uses the FFmpeg libraries and SDL, and is mostly used as a testbed for FFmpeg APIs.
SupportThe application page links to the Dragon Player Handbook and KDE forum for help, and to KDE Bugzilla to report bugs.The project accepts bug reports and contributions, and directs normal bugs to its Forgejo repository rather than its security email address.

Plans

Dragon Player

  • Dragon PlayerFree
  • Dragon Player FreeFree

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FFplay

No plans published.

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Dragon Player

Dragon Player has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

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FFplay

FFplay has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

Visit ffmpeg.org