Esa guia de openSUSE tiene un fallo, VLC de Videolan es incompatible con los codecs del Packman, tienes que instalar el VLC de Packman para que te funcione.
Mi listado de los paquetes VLC instalados en Packman
sudo zypper se -i -r packman vlc
Cargando datos del repositorio...
Leyendo los paquetes instalados...
S | Name | Summary | Type
---+---------------------+--------------------------------------------------+--------
i+ | libvlc5 | Shared code for the VLC media player program | paquete
i+ | libvlccore9 | Shared code for the VLC media player program | paquete
i+ | vlc | Graphical media player | paquete
i+ | vlc-codec-gstreamer | GStreamer integration for the VLC media player | paquete
i+ | vlc-codecs | Additional codecs for the VLC media player | paquete
i+ | vlc-lang | Translations for package vlc | paquete
i+ | vlc-noX | VLC without X dependencies | paquete
i+ | vlc-opencv | OpenCV plugins for VLC media player | paquete
i+ | vlc-qt | Qt interface for the VLC media player | paquete
i+ | vlc-vdpau | Additional vdpau codecs for the VLC media player | paquete
No se que repositorios de esa guía has instalado, reporta tus repos en este hilo: Comprobar idoneidad de los repositorios