Can't play some .flv files

English Multimedia
1

Hi guys ,
I followed http://opensuse-guide.org/codecs.php guide to install multimedia codes on my opensuse leap.
After install i can play most of the files but some specific .flv files don’t play . Those files are playing fine in debian when i tested.

I am using vlc, smplayer , and dragonplayer.

 /usr/bin/mpv --no-config --no-quiet --terminal --no-msg-color --input-file=/dev/stdin --no-fs --hwdec=no --sub-auto=fuzzy --vo=xv --ao=pulse, --no-input-default-bindings --input-x11-keyboard=no --no-input-cursor --cursor-autohide=no --no-keepaspect --wid=109051921 --monitorpixelaspect=1 --osd-scale=1 --sub-ass --embeddedfonts --ass-line-spacing=0 --sub-scale=1 --sub-text-font=Arial --sub-text-color=#ffffff --sub-text-shadow-color=#000000 --sub-text-border-color=#000000 --sub-text-border-size=2.5 --sub-text-shadow-offset=5 --sub-codepage=utf8:ISO-8859-1 --sub-pos=100 --volume=55 --cache=2048 --osd-level=0 --screenshot-directory=/home/mrutyunjaya/Pictures/smplayer_screenshots --screenshot-template=cap_%F_%p_%02n --screenshot-format=jpg --audio-channels=2 --af-add=scaletempo --af-add=equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 --softvol=yes --softvol-max=110 --ytdl=no --term-playing-msg=MPV_VERSION=${=mpv-version:}
 INFO_VIDEO_WIDTH=${=width}
 INFO_VIDEO_HEIGHT=${=height}
 INFO_VIDEO_ASPECT=${=video-aspect}
 INFO_VIDEO_FPS=${=fps}
 INFO_VIDEO_FORMAT=${=video-format}
 INFO_VIDEO_CODEC=${=video-codec}
 INFO_AUDIO_FORMAT=${=audio-codec-name:${=audio-format}}
 INFO_AUDIO_CODEC=${=audio-codec}
 INFO_AUDIO_RATE=${=audio-params/samplerate:${=audio-samplerate}}
 INFO_AUDIO_NCH=${=audio-params/channel-count:${=audio-channels}}
 INFO_LENGTH=${=duration:${=length}}
 INFO_DEMUXER=${=demuxer}
 INFO_TITLES=${=disc-titles}
 INFO_CHAPTERS=${=chapters}
 INFO_TRACKS_COUNT=${=track-list/count}
 METADATA_TITLE=${metadata/by-key/title:}
 METADATA_ARTIST=${metadata/by-key/artist:}
 METADATA_ALBUM=${metadata/by-key/album:}
 METADATA_GENRE=${metadata/by-key/genre:}
 METADATA_DATE=${metadata/by-key/date:}
 METADATA_TRACK=${metadata/by-key/track:}
 METADATA_COPYRIGHT=${metadata/by-key/copyright:}
 INFO_MEDIA_TITLE=${=media-title:}
  --term-status-msg=STATUS: ${=time-pos} / ${=duration:${=length:0}} P: ${=pause} B: ${=paused-for-cache} I: ${=core-idle} /home/mrutyunjaya/Downloads/1.flv
 

 Playing: /home/mrutyunjaya/Downloads/1.flv
 Failed to recognize file format.
 Exiting... (Errors when loading file)

This is the error smplayer is giving to me.

Please help.

Regards
Bapun

2

the generic multimedia answer/question is
do you have packman, did you do a vendor change to packman?

post your repo list

zypper lr -d
3 
#  | Alias                               | Name                                    | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                            | Service
---+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
 1 | dvd                                 | dvd                                     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/                             |        
 2 | games                               | games                                   | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/            |        
 3 | google-chrome                       | google-chrome                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64                            |        
 4 | http-download.opensuse.org-925e0e70 | multimedia:libs                         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/libs/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |        
 5 | http-download.opensuse.org-9bf2b65d | multimedia:apps                         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |        
 6 | http-download.opensuse.org-d0bf2ac8 | KDE:Extra                               | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/       |        
 7 | openSUSE-42.1-0                     | openSUSE-42.1-0                         | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | hd:///?device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0JetFlash_Transcend_8GB_058F-part2          |        
 8 | packman                             | packman                                 | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/                               |        
 9 | repo-debug                          | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Debug                | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/            |        
10 | repo-debug-non-oss                  | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Debug-Non-Oss        | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/        |        
11 | repo-debug-update                   | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Debug         | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.1/oss                        |        
12 | repo-debug-update-non-oss           | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/                   |        
13 | repo-non-oss                        | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Non-Oss              | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/              |        
14 | repo-oss                            | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Oss                  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/                  |        
15 | repo-source                         | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Source               | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/           |        
16 | repo-update                         | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update               | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/oss/                             |        
17 | repo-update-non-oss                 | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Non-Oss       | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/                         |

This is the output of

zypper lr -d
4

repo’s #4 and #5 are a bit flake as they don’t contain any restricted (patented) codecs they’re crippled and are meant for development not for end users, repo #1 is not needed after initial install of libdvdcss2, repo #13 should be enabled as it carries gstreamer-fluendo-mp3 the legal mp3 decoder that SUSE has payed for us, it looks like you followed the guide at http://opensuse-guide.org/codecs.php that one has a few errors so do this
enable #13, do a dup with packman #8, install if you’ve removed phonon-backend-gstreamer phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer and remove phonon-backend-vlc phonon4qt5-backend-vlc
you can do copy/paste with the text below

zypper mr -e 13
zypper in gstreamer-fluendo-mp3 libdvdcss2 phonon-backend-gstreamer phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
zypper rm phonon-backend-vlc phonon4qt5-backend-vlc
zypper dup --from 8
zypper rr 1 4 5

that should make all multimedia work and clean things up a bit.
ps you do not need to run the last command (zypper rr 1 4 5) but it is recommended you remove repo’s #4 and #5 as those will brake multimedia and #1 is useless after initial install as it only has 1 package that never changes.

5

Thank you sir for your replay. After upgrading all installed packages to packman repo all media files are working correctly now . It seems the guide i followed had some mistakes , can u please give me a link to a correct guide of how to setup multimedia so i can use that in further installs.

Thanks for your help

6

the correct guide is experience, just give it time, this thread is an OK guide, basicly all you need is packman so if multimedia fails do a full vendor switch to packman
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Vendor_change_update#Using_zypper_2

there is also a pinned thread here at the top of the multimedia forum page
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/452884-Multimedia-in-One-Click

but personally I don’t like the 1 click multimedia as you end up forgetting to do a full vendor change with packman and some things end-up not working

7

Thanks for your replay, I should have read the man pages and other documentations before asking help, But thanks for your help i can solve the problem in future.

Thanks again for helping me out.

8

if you don’t understand something ask.
Wwhen I first started using opensuse I preferred using the gui yast, then with time I found the command line zypper more to my liking, as I said it takes time.