10.3: Totem Codecs

I could have sworn I saw that as one of the "nifty new features" of 10.3 (or maybe it was the new Gnome specifically, but either way)... the ability to auto-download codecs (ala' Media Player).
Seems to me that it simply complains about some obscure decoder missing and then just bombs out to me though.
Is there something I'm missing, or did I just read something wrong about the new features? :blink:

Well, it ain't perfect this technology, eh?

Got mine working with a combination of old fashioned ways of installing what I already know is needed and using some of the automatic one-click Community stuff.

Do some searching for some older and newer guides and you'll find your path to multimedia nirvana on OpenSUSE 10.3 as well!

Essentially, I got the repos (most) installed from the Community Repository section of YaST Software. Instead of using the opensuse-community.org/Multimedia one-click thing as I had tried (and didn't really like the choices) on RC1, I just installed the stuff I wanted through YaST Software Management, uninstalling totem-plugin, choosing to keep Gnome Multimedia and to ignore this time, installing mplayer and w32codecs-all, upgrading everything from the Packman repo (which replaces Totem with totem-xine), making sure realplayer, flash, java6-sunplugin (removes java 5, say keep Gnome thing, ignore this time), trash java5-sun, install java6-sun are installed. Install all except the 2 weird libxine1 things and the gstreamer010-plugins-good-extra, gstreamer010-plugins-bad, and gstreamer010-plugins-ugly and the ffmpeg one, choose to have YaST include all architectures and allow, ffmpeg, make sure lame and mad, k3b-codecs, transcode, normalize, k9copy are installed. Install libdvdcss2 (not libdvdcss which the vlc repo offers), logout and in, install acroread, totem-browser-plugin. Go into File Manager superduper user mode and delete all the libtotem-complex-plugin files from /usr/lib/browser-plugins and /usr/lib/Firefox/Plugins (lets RealPlayer handle its files). Check gstreamer stuff in YaST and see that all of them are from Packman. Check that libquicktime (doesn't need to be from Packman, SUSE version includes everything), xvid stuff is installed (should be).

Then open your players and have Konqueror options plugins search for new plugins. Start up Firefox and everything should work.

Not so one-click, eh? But still not too hard. You wanna rip and encode mp3? Do that instead of Fluendo one-click. Also, you'll need to go into Amarok options and select the xine engine.

Ooh! Packman just made the Totem plugin thing easier. He changed the name back to the same name as the official versions, totem-plugin, instead of a separate totem-browser-plugin, and also took out the RealPlayer parts so there isn't a need for an OpenSUSE user who has RealPlayer installed to go in and delete the parts himself to keep RealPlayer in charge of those. He just made the totem-plugin a newer version so that an upgrade with his repo enabled will pull in his versions (which include the needed codecs for more files to play). So an upgrade from his repo will bring in totem-plugin, totem (which is totem-xine replacing the default totem based on gstreamer) and the needed codec packed Amarok, Kaffeine, etc all from his repo.

So it's even easier now. And you have the choice of either totem-plugin or mplayerplug-in too. See which works better for you.