I have just installed a copy of SUSE 11.2 and its able to see my seagate freeagent external hardrive but I am unable to play anything. I have a variety of music and movies on there all in different formats but anything I try to open won’t play. It automatically opens with a program called kaffeine, plays the song or video way too quickly and then says stopped. Please help.
Did you install the needed codecs?
Also Kaffeine in my opinion sucks, I would install VLC or SMplayer.
Follow this carefully
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums
Add the packman repo in software repositories in YaST.
YaST -> Software repo -> Add -> Community repos -> Packman.
And Install VLC and smplayer from software management in YaST. This will also install the necessary codecs needed for the players.
Thanks
I have installed VLC and videos will now play but the colours are not right - too much blue. I can manually change this through the settings of VLC but is there a way to set it up so that it automatically gets the colours right ?
Also I have no sound when playing mp3. They play at the fight speed now but no sound. I have checked system settings and sound works but it plays very quietly when I test it.
Did you follow the guide I posted?!
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums
Yes I did follow the guide you posted - I used the xypper command but there were a few errors, saying the file was not found. I also installed VLC.
Please post result of this
zypper lr -d
rdm@linux-535o:~> zypper lr -d
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
–±-------------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | 11.2 - VideoLan | 11.2 - VideoLan | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.2/ |
2 | ftp.skynet.be-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 90 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.2 |
3 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:/// |
4 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss |
6 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
7 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
8 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.2-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.2 |
rdm@linux-535o:~>
Please use Yast - Software Repositories to disable repo number 1 Videolan
Now use Yast Software Management - filter by repository and select Packman and do this
ImageBam - Fast, Free Image Hosting and Photo Sharing
Accept
Now try videos
I have done as you suggested but neither video or music will play now. Its uninstalled vlc and fails when it tries to open with kaffeine. ALso whenever I go into software management I get a few error messages saying software failed to download - why is this ?
It might be a glitch on the download server, there was an outage earlier today.
Anyhow I suggest re install VLC and also install SMplayer.
As for music player I put a suggestion toward songbird.
You may want to play around with some settings to get multimedia to work the way you want it, some linux media players work better then others.
Did you install the KDE version of openSUSE?
I can give some tips if you need them.
Sometimes multimedia can be a little rough in openSUSE, its not hard to correct but the workarounds can take a little bit to set up.
Please post this again
zypper lr -d
And take note of this mentioned in the guide I gave you
Check your multimedia problem in ten steps - openSUSE Forums
rdm@linux-535o:~> zypper lr -d
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
–±-------------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | 11.2 - VideoLan | 11.2 - VideoLan | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.2/ |
2 | ftp.skynet.be-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 90 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.2 |
3 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:/// |
4 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss |
6 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
7 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
8 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.2-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.2 |
rdm@linux-535o:~>
I am using KDE version
I am also getting this error through the updater - PackageKit Error repo-not-available: File ‘/repodata/repomd.xml’ not found on medium ‘http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/’
This might be related to the issue I talked about, there was an outage on the main openSUSE site.
I think they are playing around with the servers right now, my connection is fine but not everyone uses the main repository server.
Its hard to say though as I am only counting for the one I am using witch is most likely the US server as I live in the US.
If multimedia is still an issue, maybe you should try a distro with multimedia pre installed like Linux Mint or something.
By law openSUSE cannot provide codecs by default, but in truth neither can windows.
I can tell you - you need to disable the install media, I have marked it red above
Thanks for info. I am based in Thailand and I downloaded this copy of SUSE 11.2 off the Thai national mirror.
Further to my comment about the CD/DVD above,-
You could try mirrors closer to you
openSUSE Download Mirrors - 11.2
You would need to delete the one giving problems and add it back with a url from this list
Yeh who knows the Thai server might be down, the US one was down earlier for me.
And looking at the list caf4926 gave you yeh looks like thai servers are not even a priority…
Hmm.
I would use a Chinese or Japanese server.
I have switched to the Thai servers and my updates downloaded with no problem and I no longer get erros when downloading or connecting. However I still have no sound. Movies play OK with Kaffeine now and I’ve also reinstalled VLC but same colour problems exist with VLC. No sound at all. Please help