Is there anyway to play m4v files with picture and sound in SUSE 11? Thanks for any help.
vlc should do it, unless it’s DRM rubbish
I like that. “DRM rubbish”, heh, heh.
I don’t think any of them are DRM. I downloaded them with Miro. Two are from Hidden-Universe-HD—NASA-s-Spitzer-Space-Telescope and one is from Hubblecast. I can hear them but I can’t see a picture. I had the same problem with Mandriva so I switched to Linux Mint. Mint doesn’t have a problem playing m4v. PCLOS plays them too. The problem is I like SUSE better than Mint, PCLOS and Mandriva but SUSE doesn’t have as much out-of-the-box multimedia stuff and so takes a lot more setting up to make it a full multimedia desktop. VLC only does so much without the right codecs.
set up your multi media properly
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums
Packman is your main repo for this.
Try changing the settings in the video player to X11 output
Right, that worked. Ta very much mate.
great stuff. well done!
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Why do I use Suse.?
Well it does everything I want, it was traditionally kde, though gnome feature highly too now. It has plenty of community support, not just in the forum but maintainers and packagers like Packman. I have tried all the distros you mention. PCLOS is great but support I would question. Mint is just a rework of Ubuntu, but when I tried it is awsome. Mandriva too excellent and kde!
You didn’t mention Fedora, I have used that in the past too, back at F7.
Multi-media does not come out of the box with Suse, but it is no problem to get it going. My advice would be don’t get down, stick with the distro you most like, work at it. If you keep switching you never become familiar enough with one to have a good understanding and grasp of it.
Krusader is available in the kde4 repo. But you may have to use Factory
KDE4 Factory:
Desktop:
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.0
Extra:
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_11.0
Community:
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.0_KDE4_Factory_Desktop
Right. I had a cogitate and I decided I’ll wait until 11.1 is finished. With 11 I’d have to set up the 2 other internal hard drives I have and install most of the multimedia stuff I need because it’s not installed out of the box (not even from the DVD). I changed the resolution to 1280 x 1024 and the desktop moved to the left about an inch and although I used the controls in the driver software to move it to the right it doesn’t stay where I tried to put it.
SUSE KDE has great menus, lots of diagnostic stuff, a very professional look, but it doesn’t have automounting like Mandriva, tons of multimedia out of the box and an easy way to set up automounting like Mint KDE does.
SUSE is a strange mix of some of the most advanced things I’ve seen in any Linux distro but it has some glaring weaknesses for a first time user that I’d only expect to find in Slackware or Debian.
Even the ubiquitous Ubuntu provides a more even experience for a first time user. I don’t understand how SUSE became so uneven in the features and tools it provides it’s users. It takes one from the heights of OSX to the most intense CLI depths of Linux geekdom. SUSE is a roller coaster ride for a newbie to Linux.
At the end of the day though none of that matters one wit. SUSE is an excellent distro despite it’s glaring faults, which are few in number. I’m very grateful so many people around the world donate so much of their time and knowledge to create and maintain Linux distros, never expecting any monetary remuneration for their considerable, seemingly never ending efforts. Well done! Jolly good! Cheers!
Or alternatively, perhaps I’m just having a bad week!
Don’t know what Mint or Mandrive offer, but cd/dvd’s should be automounted as well as USB sticks.
I always got my multimedia needs covered after installing fluendo for mp3’s and SMPlayer for all videos (and I do watch tons of vids). The MPlayer firefox plugin and Mplayer-Thumbs addon for Dolphin are nice to.
Don’t you get charged for using fluendo? I though the codecs from fluendo have to be bought.