hey crackers, i need a little help with opensuse 11.2. Got it installed from 64 bit DVD and everything went ok, but i am with one problem left, .avi videos (my tv shows are in that format) i can’t find a codec that will play them, i tried win32codecs, gstreamer ugly, bad, and the gnome codecs one click thingy. Is there any specific for .avi? i got M4A/MP4 files to go, but .avi is still an issue (which even windows vista won’t read :sarcastic: only one that could read them was mandriva out of box support)
is there anyway to play it with banshee? i really don’t want to have a lot of clutter applications if i don’t have to, i rather keep everthing in one place
Typically, one gets their codecs from Packman in openSUSE by installing libffmpeg0 and ffmpeg (whose dependencies provide many codecs), w32codec-all, libquicktime0, and libxvidcore4. There are also other codecs that one can get from Packman.
For installing packages from Packman and in general, I recommend you keep ONLY 4 repositories enabled on your system. Just 4. Those 4 are OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman. Only those 4. No others. None. Only after one is an average skilled to advanced openSUSE Linux user, should IMHO one be keeping more than those 4 repos enabled. In particular do NOT enable and install apps other than libdvdcss from vlc, as the vlc apps are known to break the functionality of the packman packaged apps. There is guidance for adding those 4 repos here: Repositories - openSUSE-Community Again, ONLY the 4 that I recommend.
Chances are OSS, Non-OSS, and Update are already enabled and you only need to enable Packman. Note you can tell packman packaged applications by the “pm” in the version number.
Once you have those 4 enabled, you can go to YaST > Software > Software Management and change the “filter” to “search” and search for and install the apps that I recommended that will provide you with codecs. Wrt players, I recommend you install smplayer and vlc. And also install the packman packaged version (replace the Novell version) of libxine1 as many apps use the xine video and sound engine.
thanks, some of the instructions didn’t work, but a few did, and then mplayer itself was screwy it was like choppy, some error message was popping every half a second but it wouldn’t show message in front it will just quick pop and pop. But gnome player front end for mplayer makes it work nice.
ok i had to reinstall cuz i did something stupid in installing process that caused windows not to boot, and now i have to deal with the **** all over again, only now its with MP4 files ****IT
how do i get these to play with banshee and all the **** again? i got it somehow and i dont remember how i did it, and yes i did the gnome codec install, ffmpeg, and etc.
install all gstreamer packages from packman PackMan :: Search results or at least the ones to replace the Suse one’s. Novell includes stripped versions of the ugly, bad, very bad, and etc that will cause problems with AAC/MP4 audio. If your talking about .avi i haven’t gotten it to work in totem, i just got mplayer and GNOME Mplayer UI cover for it and works fine. Its interface is almost identical to totem, simple, and mplayer has all the codecs you could dream of so use it if you don’t like vlc. Im sure there is a way to get totem to read .avi (as Mandriva totem can out of the box) but its probably not worth the hassle
If your using KDE just download the xine1 package from packman and then switch to xine backend from the kde control center and it should work with kaffine, im not sure if dragon player supports xine.
Further to panther86’s post, if you set up ONLY 4 repos: OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman, and NO OTHERS, and give Packman a priority of “80” and leave the other three at “99”, and then go to YaST > Software > Software Management > View > Repositories > Packman you will see a line that says “Switch System packages to the versions in this repository (Packman)”
Click on the Switch System packages and it will change out your crippled Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged apps with full featured Packman ones.
Its quick, its fast, its painless, and you have then replaced all the crippled Novell/SuSE-GmbH packages with full featured Packman ones.
