I just installed openSUSE 11.2 64bit version with Gnome desktop environment, I have problem with the successfully installed multimedia codecs from the Packman repository; my suse box already has the following plugins:
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-farsight
gstreamer-0_10-schroedinger
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra
bluez-gstreamer
gstreamer010-ffmpeg
gstreamer010-fluendo-mpegdemux
gstreamer010-fluendo-mpegmux
ffmpeg-java
However, whenever I run soundconverter, sound-juicer, or play flash video using swfdec plugin, it always shows a error message states that mp3 and aac (mp4) is not supported and I need to install the reqired codecs in order to playback/convert multimedia files. I cannot figure out what I’m missing. I’m an ex-fedora user and I was able to get full multimedia support with the above mentioned plugins. Frankly speaking, I like opensuse and I don’t want to revert to fedora. Can any one help me to remain with the suse community and fix this problem. Thanks.
Hey man, thanks alot for the quick respond. I followed your advice and I finally managed to upgrade all my gstreamer plugins to packman version and get full support for mp3 & acc (mp4) :). However I encountered a problem with cheese, it doesn’t recognise my built-in webacam not anymore:'(. It’s used to work fine out of the box with the gstreamer-plugins-good (oss version). I google it and I found a couple of threads but it didn’t provide a solution to the matter. Do you know a work around this issue? I appreciate your help :). Thanks
Thanks mate, I’ve noticed that whenver cheese doesn’t detect my built-in webcam, I cannot reboot my system properly because it loggs me out instead. However, after a successful reboot, cheese starts to detect my webcam!. This weird behaviour happens frequently. I just assume that suse 11.2 is a little bit buggy. Also, sometimes gnome-power-manager fails to show the correct icon i.e. whether the machine is running on battery, or still charging, or fully charged and running on ac power.
Thanks again for the help, I hope one of the admins can mark this thread solved and close it because the main issue was resolved i.e. gstreamer-plugins.