From a previous thread where I had jerky video play in Leap 15.6 I got various replies, including “use flatpaks” . . . . The one that did work was "install opi and then run “opi ffmpeg.” The last time I did this I got the same question to select “multimedia libs” or something else and I picked “multimedia libs” . . . but in the thread the response was . . . “don’t pick that one.”
I am waiting for Packman to work with Leap 16, but as of this morning it still isn’t available . . . but being able to check videos in Leap would be handy. Any hope that “opi” and “opi ffmpeg” and selecting “ffmpeg-6” . . . with the proper “libs” will bring video capacity in FireFox browser?? Installing “opi” pulled 45 packages for about 100MB of space . . . will this approach be viable??
Or, best to “rm opi” and patiently wait for Packman? I’d prefer to have zypper handle the package upgrades over having to also run a “flatpak update” command as well.
opi ffmpeg
/usr/bin/opi:27: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
search = re.search('\s*[\d\-]*\.?\s*', line)
Searching repos for: ffmpeg
You have selected package name: ffmpeg-6
1. multimedia:libs ? | 6.1.2 | x86_64
2. home:ecsos ! | 6.1.2 | x86_64
3. home:plater ! | 6.1.2 | x86_64
Pick a number (0 to quit):
Thanks kindly. Years back I would impetuously just pick a choice . . . but over time “discretion is the better part of valor” has been the “learning” . . . .
Appreciate the fast response. I’ll see if this brings some video snippets.
Hmm . . . ran it through. logged out and back in, doesn’t seem to bring videos in Bluesky or the Twitter. Maybe I’ll “reboot,” but seems like maybe it ain’t gonna work.
I want to delay on the flatpak version of FF . . . . No worries. But, if there is another package other than the “opi” gambit, might give it a try.
Is that direction using less space or less packages?? Still not entirely convinced yet, I think I did the flatpak firefox back in Leap 15.6 to try to solve a “jerky motion in videos” problem and that wound up not fixing the problem but the “opi + ffmpeg” approach did work . . . .
In this present case, going that way did get the YT videos going, but obviously not all types of web videos are working . . . in firefox. If there is another package to add in going from the “opi” method, that would be on the wish list. Almost there, not quite.
The “joy” of Packman is once added to repos, then, one command to run the upgrades . . . simple.
Hmm . . . “associated issues”??? Once the repo is set up I haven’t noticed any “issues” . . . other than “vendor change”???
I got the “install as your user” part for the flatpak install . . . and then “flatpak firefox” has to be installed, and the system firefox removed or designated to not use.
But, “no packman for Leap 16” . . . you mean, “it won’t be available until release time?” Several months away? Or, next year?? Or now the decision is “no Packman for Leap 16??”
@non_space never say never AFAIK, closer to release or on release is before it will be built/published, but as a third party provider you would need to ask (which I don’t think I have seen on their Mailing List).
I believe I have successfully achieved capacity to watch video snippets in Firefox on Leap 16. Google AI suggested adding the package “mozilla-openh264” and I checked that in YaSt and found that it was “available” but not installed.
I installed that via zypper and then I ran its other suggested command “opi codecs” and it ran through showing the “already installed” ffmpeg-7 and a few others to install, I just clicked “y” for each of the suggestions, and then it asked if I wanted to add Packman repo?? So I also said yes, it asked me to pick a mirror, so I picked “Erlangen” . . . and it then found some errors . . . likely on the Packman repo . . . .
I shut the machine down and on cold boot, launched FF and checked twitter & bluesky and videos were working!!! So, it can be done by going the “opi” route, but that didn’t load the mozilla-openh264 codec . . . .
I also had adjusted the FF permissions on “autoplay” to “allow sound & video” . . . and Leap 16 is playing videos!!!
