Hi Oldcpu,
Excellent thread you have created! Lots of info and many are picking the fruits of your labor!
For the multimedia bit you could also add some easy zypper commands to get things setup, without one click, but with ease of use.
This will also aid in getting new openSUSE users familiarized with zypper.. especially those that already know a bit of Linux and specifically apt-get.
As example, this is what I've used after detracting the needed info from some posts you've made in the past:
(installs libdvdnav4, libdvdread3, libdvdread4, smplayer, mplayerplug-in, vlc, libxine1, libffmpeg0, w32codec-all, libdvdcss)
The manual install using zypper on openSUSE 11.1:
Code:
su - #elevate to root
#add Packman Repo
zypper ar -f http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/ Packman
#install needed packages
zypper install libdvdnav4
zypper install -r Packman libdvdread3 libdvdread4 smplayer mplayerplug-in vlc libxine1 libffmpeg0 w32codec-all
#add VideoLan Repo
zypper ar -f http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.1/ VideoLan
#add needed packages
zypper install -r VideoLan libdvdcss
#remove VideoLan Repo
zypper rr http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.1/
#check registered repo's (VideoLan should not be there)
zypper lr
For openSUSE 11.0 this could be added after ' su - '
zypper remove xine-lib
Cheers,
Wj