firefox having problems with codecs

[karlmistelberger]

@stryan

I had working codecs prior to April 9th and had followed the sticky way back when the change occurred; you can see in my previous post #16 that most of my codec versions were being supplied by Packman, only the [FONT=monospace][FONT=arial]libavcodec59 and associated were from Tumbleweed.[/FONT][/FONT]

This thread is not about “firefox having problems with codecs”. It’s about sloppy and clueless maintenance by the administrators.

Proper configuration of repos and solver defaults ensures that the correct version of codecs gets installed and upgraded at any time:

**erlangen:~ #** zypper se -is libavcodec59.x86_64 
Loading repository data... 
Reading installed packages... 

S | Name         | Type    | Version   | Arch   | Repository 
--+--------------+---------+-----------+--------+----------- 
i | libavcodec59 | package | 5.1.2-4.5 | x86_64 | Packman 
**erlangen:~ #**