Trouble With With H.264 Codec And Flash

I have Open Suse 11 rc1 installed. Everything works but I can get any streaming media working such as Revision3 Mevio etc.

I have added all the repositories from the lists on multiple forums but no luck. I have mplayer and its plugins, gstreamer and its plugins,the flash plugin and ebery codec one that I could find. Nothing will play in the browser or any player. The formats include xvid,ms,quick time.

I get the same pop up window H.264 codec not installed.

Thanks

PS,
I thought H.264 was open code, probably wrong thanks again

Im certain this is a user configuration issue.

I have Open Suse 11 rc1 installed. Everything works but I can get any streaming media working such as Revision3 Mevio etc.[/b]

I've never visited those sites before (until just now after visiting your post).

http://revision3.com/
Revision3 works fine on my 32-bit openSUSE-10.3 under firefox, as an embedded video with flash player.

http://www.mevio.com/
Mevio did not play as an embedded video, with firefox having an embedded mplayer session that was doing nothing. I did note Download Helper (a firefox pluggin) detecting a video being streamed from Mevio, so I downloaded the video via Download Helper. It was a .flv and I was able to play it with smplayer. For some reason it appears the firefox on my PC decided to try play it with mplayer (which can play some flv) instead of play it with flash-player, ...this likely a configuration issue on my PC, that could be fixed I suspect by setting up my firefox to launch video's in a separate window. ... Still, I was able to download with download helper, and play the video with smplayer.

Hence as long as your PC's flash-player is properly installed (and not with multiple versions of flash on your PC interfering with each other), and as long as you are not having 32-bit vs 64-bit problems (ie 32-bit firefox/64-bit firefox), then I would tend to agree with nullack, that you have a configuration setup problem.

As noted, my configuration was not ideal (and could likely be tuned) but for the record, my /home/oldcpu/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf file contents are:

vo=gl
ao=alsa
cachesize=512
cache-percent=25
dload-dir=/home/oldcpu
qt-speed=low
showtime=1
enable-wmp=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=1
enable-gmp=1
enable-dvx=0
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=1
enable-midi=0
enable-pls=1
enable-ogg=1
enable-smil=1
enable-helix=1
nomediacache=0
nopauseonhide=0
rtsp-use-tcp=0
rtsp-use-http=0

You could check into getting a more appropriate plug in for firefox, to enable this video to stream.

I get the same pop up window H.264 codec not installed.[/b]

Its possible different videos use different formats on those sites?

The example video that I played, from the Revision3 site, played with my flash-player. After downloading, I noted it to be 29.97 fps, of a VP6F video format (128000 bps), with an mp3 audio (128000bps @ 44100Hz).

The sample video from the mevio site (which I streamed with DownloadHelper to my hard drive) was an 18 fps video, of an FLV1 video format (64000 bps), with an mp3 audio (64000 bps).

Which video were you trying to download that gave you the h264 error?