Is this post https://forums.opensuse.org/content.php/127-Multimedia-and-Restricted-Formats-Installation-Guide-12-2 valid for 13.2?
Is there any mmcheck for 13.2?
yes just replace 12.2 with 13.2, and I’d recommend doing a zypper dup with the packman repo to replace the oss packages with ones from packman.
seeing how mmcheck is a bash script it might or might not work, I did a quick view and the version I saw seams to use hardcoded version numbers (opensuse 11.x), if you tweak the bash file it should work on 13.2.
Thanks.
Up to now that post and mmcheck had always made everything work well. But not now. That’s why I asked.
Two days ago I had a problem and had to reinstall many packages. From then on, the video applications don’t work properly. For instance, vlc doesn’t play videos that used to play before; it remains black; besides, the icon appears in system tray (in menueditor the option “Place in system tray” is unchecked) and there’s no way to close it: doesn’t obey when you click “Quit”.
Also kaffeine refuses to play some videos that played before.
I have done all that is suggested in the post above and run all the checks in mmcheck.
If anybody has an idea…?
I would say start yast goto software management, select the packman repository and set it as the system repository.
If you browse the forum you will see that packman had some down issues, you might need to change it’s URL, or you might be having a video driver issue.
OK you said in the last few days you had to reinstall many packages, seeing how packman has been having uptime issues you might have gotten the crippled oss packages, check and see if packman is reachable
do a
zypper lr -r
list and refresh reposetories, if packman is reachable do
zypper dup --from #
replace # with packmans number
IIRC Packan was not realy down. There were only issues with one (1) mirror of it. Almost nobody reported problems. I assume that is because only a minority used that particular mirror. And that is as it should be: to spread users over the mirrors.
Correct. packman.inode.at was down.
But it is up now again. Well, not really up, but you get redirected to a different mirror at least.
Btw, the gwdg.de mirror is listed in YaST’s community repositories list. So probably most people use that one.
The same issue for my opensuse 13.2 kde box when i upgraded from 13.1 a few weeks ago.It was fixed when i deleted the contents of the ~/.config/vlc file.When i launched vlc it created new ones.The same fix also made my dropbox application to work after the upgrade.
Thanks for the suggestion. It didn’t work for me, anyway.
I am afraid that mmcheck is a thing of the past. James D. McDaniel (Its James again from Austin, Texas) is no longer with us.
The script is rather old now and as long as no volunteer comes, takes it up and changes it to the present (13.2) situation, you can not e sure it tests all it should test. Even if it runs without issues.
The best thing for multimedia is, as it always was, to be sure you did switch to Packman all that is in OSS and in Packman. Either by using the Repositories from the View menu in YaST > Sodtware > Software managemnt and then using the “Change System Packages …” above the package list, or a zypper dup from the Packman repo (as already said above).
Try to uninstall vdpau-video and libvdpau_va_gl1 if they are installed.
The first one is only for nvidia systems and breaks others (in particular if both are installed), and the second one seems to cause problems on some systems too.
It’s good to know what you say about mmcheck. The script runs perfectly well on my system, but some of it’s suggestions looked rather old. Thanks.
I did already what you say in your last paragraph.
Wow! This worked fine.
I removed the second package (the first was not installed) and now vcl and kaffeine seems to work normally.
Thanks a lot.
FYI, libvdpau_va_gl1 is necessary for VDPAU (nvidia’s hardware video decoding) support on intel systems. It just uses libva (VA-API, which intel supports) for this.
But as both VLC and Kaffeine/Xine support VA-API native anyway, you don’t lose anything by uninstalling it.
vdpau-video OTOH implements VA-API support for nvidia systems, by redirecting it to VDPAU.
That’s why you should never install both, because you’d end up in an endless loop… 
Thank you for this explanation too. Little by little one learns.
I had not seen any prior mention of this (if there had been any), but had wondered, and strangely suspected for some reason, that that might have been the case. 
It is communicated on these forums: In Memorial of James McDaniel - News and Announcements - openSUSE Forums
Thanks … I had similarly learnt well after the fact about Dever D too.
On 2015-06-11 19:06, Tyler K wrote:
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> Thanks … I had similarly learnt well after the fact about Dever D
> too.
Yes… IMHO, the forum info page for people should show, if we know
about it, that they are deceased. A kind of memorial. I don’t know if an
administrator can add a line on those pages.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
That should do it