Welcome to multimedia sub-area

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Welcome to the openSUSE Forums multimedia section!

This is our multimedia thread area, where support for multimedia is provided. This is intended to include questions about media applications, codecs (DVD, music, video, pdf) configuration (usage, bugs), etc ...

If you have sound working, but can not play many audio/video formats, it is possible these are proprietary formats that are not supported "after a fresh install" by openSUSE. More information on the openSUSE approach for packaged audio/video support can be found here:
Restricted Formats - openSUSE

OpenSUSE users can have 1st rate multimedia with the appropriate 3rd party applications and codecs installed. Information on installing 3rd party applications/codecs can be found here:
Multimedia - openSUSE-Community

More information for installing 3rd party "restricted formats" on different openSUSE versions can be found here:
Restricted Formats - openSUSE-Community

Note it often makes the above significantly easier if you have setup your repositories per this wiki here:
Repositories - openSUSE-Community

If you have a problem getting your sound card to work, please go here:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

If that that does not help you get your basic sound working, please post in this "multimedia" sub-forum, providing in your post the following information:

• provide the URLs (of a summary webpage) that are created by running the diagnostic script noted here:
  SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - Script to run to obtain detailed information. On openSUSE-11.1 and newer that will ask you to run the script /usr/sbin/alsa-info.sh and after the script finishes it will give you a URL to pass to the support personnel. Please post here the output URL. Just the URL. You may need to run that script twice (the first time with root permissions to update in the /usr/sbin directory, and the second time to get the URL).
• in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -qa '*alsa*' #and post output here
• in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -qa '*pulse*' #and post output here
• in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: rpm -q libasound2 #and post output here
• in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: uname -a #and post output here
• for openSUSE-11.1 or earlier, in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound #and post output here
• for openSUSE-11.2 or later, in a terminal, or xterm, or konsole, type: cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf #and post output here

There is also guidance for new users here, in setting up their multimedia: Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide

Once again, welcome to our multi-media section, and please post here for help, and also contribute with advice and solutions.
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