I can’t get VLC to play certain codecs like WMA, WMV, MP4VA, MP4A, etc. I’ve read the guide to install restricted codecs and I use OpenSuSE Tumbleweed 64 bit. How do I get these to work so VLC works again?
You need to install the package “vlc-codecs” for those codecs:
sudo zypper in vlc-codecs
Thanks. It worked!
I tried it but this is what I get openSUSE-13.1-Update-Non-Oss’ appears to outdated Consider using a different mirror or server. I looked in software repos and it is enabled , autorefresh…
Ignore that message. There are no non-oss updates for 13.1 yet (it’s not even released yet…).
But that has nothing to do with VLC anyway.
What is your actual problem?
vlc-codecs is not included in the standard distro. You have to add the Packman repo for that, but that’s not available for 13.1 yet either.
You could try to use the Packman repo for 12.3 or Factory though, but no guarantees that that will work.
how to add packman repo I’ve tried zypper addrepo --repo Index of /pub/linux/packman/suse/12.3/repodata but what file? cause terminal was complaining it isn’t a repo file
Leave out that “repodata” at the end:
zypper addrepo http://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/packman/suse/12.3/ Packman
And make sure you install all vlc packages from there, especially libvlc5 (13.1 still contains VLC 2.0.8 whereas Packman already has 2.1.0). But this should be handled automatically via the dependencies.