I’m a new member and currently a Windows user planning to migrate to openSUSE. My biggest issue is how to ensure that I can continue to use my audio HW (Audigy 2) to listen to my mp3 collection and my video HW (OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 control unit) to rip my videos on DV tape from my Camcorder.
If I would install openSUSE 11 today, what would I have to do to ensure what I want?
Thankful for all help I can get.
Cheers
After you have installed openSUSE 11, you will want to make sure you have some of the community repositories enabled, especially the Packman repo. Have a look at these:
welcome to the forum;
deano has given you good pointers to mp3 etc;
if I mention video: we have run canon and sony mini-DV cameras and linux effortlessly pulls mini-DV in through FireWire;
a couple of recent threads have talked about video editing;
Making movies… how? - openSUSE Forums
and
Video editing software?? - openSUSE Forums
kdenlive gives you simple functions; depends how much you may wish to do;
best wishes
Some openSUSE concepts to brush up on: Concepts - openSUSE - THATS IMPORTANT !!
You could also skim thru the applications on the packman page, before installing openSUSE, to get a flavour as to what 3rd party multimedia apps are available as pre-packaged rpms (read the concepts page to understand what an rpm is). PackMan :: home
Also, BEFORE burning your CD for installing, read this stickie:
NEWBIES - Suse-11.0 Pre-installation – PLEASE READ - openSUSE Forums
My recommendation is after installing, the 1st thing you do is get internet access. This may work immediately. It may not. Give it priority.
2nd thing I always do is set up my Software Package Manager (SPM) repositories to make software installation easy. Read the concepts page to understand what repositories are.
I recommend you setup 4 and only 4 repositories. Specifically only OSS, NON-OSS, Update and Packman. No others. None. When you learn more about the risks of others, then and only then can you add others. Guidance for adding your repositories is here: Repositories/11.0 - openSUSE-Community
Again, only OSS, NON-OSS, Update and Packman. No others.
3rd thing (with repositories setup) is install a minimum of high quality multimedia. Note you need to replace Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged multimedia apps with many 3rd party packaged replacements (typically packaged by Packman). Typically one simultaneously should replace Novell’s xine-lib with Packman’s libxine1. Remove one and add the other AT THE SAME TIME. Don’t try to do it separate. Also, replace Novell’s packaged amarok/kaffeine with Packman’s amarok/kaffeine. Apps I always install include smplayer, mplayerplug-in, libxine1, kaffeine, vlc, libffmpeg0, w32codec-all (plus many others)
I also install libdvdcss2 from videolan. (But only libdvdcss2 and no others from videolan, as others have been known to interfere with Packman packaged apps).
Note many audigy users struggle with their mixer. Take note of this guide:
Audigy sound card - openSUSE Forums
Good luck.
Amaraok is a great player for an mp3 collection
I think you can use kino (which uses dvgrab, I think) to grab your DV tapes off your camcorder. Then use kdenlive to edit them (I believe kdenlive’s editor is superior to kino’s).
Stay away from openSUSE-11’s KDE4 (ie KDE-4.04). Its very very buggy. Don’t touch it. When openSUSE-11.1 comes out in December, you can install it, and use KDE-4.1.2
So when installing 11.0, select either Gnome or KDE3. I like KDE3. Others like Gnome.
I can’t find libdvdcss2 in videolan repo with yast-> software-> software management. Is it because my os is opensuse11.0 x86_64 and it has a different name?
what I can find is libdvdcss. Am I supposed to install this from videolan? In my system, VLC doesn’t play any videos, only sound but smplayer, kaffeine and realplayer are fine.
Hi
Assuming you have the 32bit versions of smplayer etc;
wget
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/rpm/libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -Uhv libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 14:08, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 0.17, 0.19
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
Make certain you did NOT install vlc and libffmpeg0 from Videolan (instead of from Packman).
Also, if you have special desktop effects ( ie “the cube” / “3D” ) enabled, you can have video problems. Your options are to either disable “special desktop effects” or change your video output module in vlc from “auto” (or from “xv” (xvideo)) to “x11”.
Some Intel graphic users have a problem with video, and need to do custom edit(s) to their /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. What graphics do you have?
Make certain you did NOT install vlc and libffmpeg0 from Videolan (instead of from Packman).
yes, they both come from packman:
vlc=0.9.4-0.pm.1 (x86_64)
libffmpeg0=0.4.9.15554svn-20081004.pm.2140 (x86_64)
Also, if you have special desktop effects ( ie “the cube” / “3D” ) enabled, you can have video problems. Your options are to either disable “special desktop effects” or change your video output module in vlc from “auto” (or from “xv” (xvideo)) to “x11”.
I’m not using any 3d desktop effects. but 3d is indeed enabled in sax2 but in grey, I can’t disable it.
I have changed video output in vlc from default to x11. now it can play .divx but still has difficult to play .avi file.
Some Intel graphic users have a problem with video, and need to do custom edit(s) to their /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. What graphics do you have?
mine is nvidia 9800GT, and the newest driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.78-pkg2.run is installed through “hard way”.
Hi
Assuming you have the 32bit versions of smplayer etc;
Code:
wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/rpm/libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm sudo rpm -Uhv libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm
in my system, smplayer, kaffeine etc are all 64bit.
I’ve installed libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1 with the 2 lines of codes above. nothing changed. is it only have 32bit but no 64bit?
Thanks all of you for the guidelines, it is not a big deal to me as I can use other players to play the videos. just want my system perfect.
Hi
You need to build the rpm from source then…but going to have to
install development tools.
wget
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/rpm/libdvdcss-1.2.9-1.src.rpm
sudo rpmbuild --rebuild libdvdcss-1.2.9-1.src.rpm
sudo rpm -e libdvdcss2
sudo -Uhv /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.x86_64.rpm
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 12:20, 3 users, load average: 0.35, 0.16, 0.07
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
Great advice. I think you have a typo in the last line, and you mean instead:
sudo rpm -Uhv /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.x86_64.rpm
I confess, I never use sudo in openSUSE. If it were me, I would type:
wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/rpm/libdvdcss-1.2.9-1.src.rpm
su -c 'rpmbuild --rebuild libdvdcss-1.2.9-1.src.rpm'
su -c 'rpm -e libdvdcss2'
su -c 'rpm -Uhv /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.x86_64.rpm'
Edit - note “wget http…something…rpm” is on one line. The “code” box is messing up the format on my PC
Hi oldcpu
That error was a test, and you passed 
I must confess too that I don’t tend to use sudo myself…
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 0:50, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.12, 0.22
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
Hi oldcpu and malcolmlewis
sorry for the late respond.
su -c 'rpm -Uhv /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.x86_64.rpm'
gives out a error message:
pqq@asus-amd:~> su -c 'rpm -Uhv /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64 libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.x86_64.rpm'
Password:
error: failed to stat /home/pqq/.gvfs: Permission denied
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:libdvdcss2 ########################################### [100%]
pqq@asus-amd:~>
I already run as root why permission still denied. /home/pqq/.gvfs is an empty directory.
but libdvdcss2 seems installed successfully.
Try this
OpenSuSE 11.0 Some Packages+Dependencies June 2008 - openSUSE Forums
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