Media Player plays nothing !

English Multimedia
1

on opensuse Leap 42.3
when i try to run a .mp4 file with Media Player i get the following


mpv ./high.mp4
Playing: ./high.mp4
 (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 720x480 29.970fps)
 (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (aac 2ch 48000Hz)
Failed to initialize a video decoder for codec 'h264'.
Video: no video
Failed to initialize an audio decoder for codec 'aac'.
Audio: no audio

very similar wit a .avi file


mpv ./file.avi
Playing: ./Jfile.avi
 (+) Video --vid=1 (mpeg4 720x480 29.970fps)
 (+) Audio --aid=1 (mp3 2ch 44100Hz)
Failed to initialize a video decoder for codec 'mpeg4'.
Video: no video

what is wrong ??

2

Default mpv from the OSS repo will not play patented formats (such as H264 etc).

You will need to install the version from Packman.

3

from your post I’m assuming you don’t have the packman repo just copy/paste the bellow in a terminal windo

sudo zypper ar -f ftp://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/ packman
sudo zypper dup --from packman
sudo zypper in vlc-codecs libxine2-codecs
4

many thanks to both Miuku and I_A
it works now

i still have to understand what is packman
can you explain that ?
and why working stuff is not directly included in the regular opensuse repository ?

5

Packman is a 3rd party repository that holds files that cannot be included with the openSUSE distribution because of patent restrictions (read: they are non-free software).

The base openSUSE install has no patent restricted codecs and is completely ‘libre’ software (more or less you are free to do whatever you like with it)

6

that puts some light on
thanks Miuku