Multimedia in One Click

English Multimedia
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Multimedia the Easy Way

If you want to avoid the detailed and more complicated Multimedia Guide, you can choose to install all the basics by following this guide.

  1. Choose your openSUSE version here: openSUSE Versions

Once you are at your version page, click the KDE or GNOME .ymp link to begin the process. If you use XFCE, the Gnome installer is for you. LXDE users will have to determine which to use based on their application base. Or follow the detailed guide linked above.
I have created a slideshow of the process in OpenOffice that you can download here: OneClick Presentaton

or you can watch it online at: Picasa Web Albums - carl fletcher - OneClick Mult…

You can also download the original photos in an archive: OneClick Photo Archive

This guide will be locked. NNTP users, please note, this thread will be updated regularly as work in progress.

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This is a copy of the thread in the HowTo section.
I put this here to open it for comments :smiley:

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caf4926 wrote:
> for comments

thank you!

–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like 127.0.0.1.

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Carl,
May I suggest eliminating slide 11? Then starting from slide 12 showing the new ones which of the solver options to pick. I notice that you have the vendor change to Packman checked in slide 12, perhaps showing the newbies what to select for their 1st run would be better. If it’s all change vendor then it may just be easier to write in “check change vendor” in all the solver conflicts in No. 12.
Aside from that I wish I’d had this when I started:good:

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I’ll see. The problem is if I just do (“check change vendor” in all the solver conflicts in No. 12.) and skip the slide 11, to you that’s easy to figure, but believe me, some folks will be completely bemused by it. That’s why I added the some assist in slide 11 with a route to skip the questions.

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You’re right apparently I’ve lost touch with my inner noob.
Remembering my 1st foray I’d been one of those “bemused.” So the way it is is probably best.

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Indeed I’m afraid that’s my problem also. I’m trapped as an average user, unable to move up to the next level, and yet also unable to relate any more to my ‘inner noob’.

I greatly appreciate all the fabulous contributions that caf4926 has provided in this multimedia and other areas.

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Hi all,
Just to say thanks for this. May I request a few more words on 32 vs 64 bit. There is a note about 32 bit systems prompting a question but it might help if there were some words about whether it matters etc. Hope my point is clear.
Budgie2

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Sorry, but not clear really.
I didn’t mention 32 v 64
And what do you mean ‘whether it matters’ - Whether what matters?

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Thank you very very much!!!

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You are welcome
Please watch for the changes mentioned here
Packman service interruption and migration

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[QUOTE=caf4926;2279551]Multimedia the Easy Way

If you want to avoid the detailed and more complicated Multimedia Guide, you can choose to install all the basics by following this guide.

***hello all: noobs and munisters!

Thanks for that multimedia ‘lite’ fixerupper. IT worked like expected. but now i don’t know whether my mm woes are over, though. you see, i have several directories with multiple (3) copies of a driver or some libxxx file. how do i go about ensuring that i have no duplicates of things which can only cause confusion down the line?

i tried to install bleach bit but was unable to do so today for some reason. do you know of any snappy apps that will look after those pesky libxxx files which always try to replicate themselves–and wear name tags that are hardly memorable.

I am very pleased with opensuse11.3,kde 4.4?
= =
Best,
:X

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Hi caf4926 and all,

this is my first post on Opensuse forums.

I have Suse 11.2 and I can’t burn dvd’s with either k3b or Brasero. I upgraded wodim, added my username to the cdrom group, changed the sticky bit with “sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/wodim”, as suggested by malcolmlewis. Then I followed caf4926’s “multimedia in one click” guide, and the system went through it smoothly. But I still keep producing coasters. Here’s the latest output of k3b:

Devices

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS50 TN02 (/dev/sr0, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R sequenziale, DVD-R sequenziale a doppio strato, DVD-R jump a doppio strato, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW a riscrittura limitata, DVD-RW sequenziale, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R a doppio strato, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Riscrittura limitata, Livello Jump] %7]

System

K3b Version: 2.0.2
KDE Version: 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5) “release 0”
QT Version: 4.5.3
Kernel: 2.6.31.14-0.4-desktop

Used versions

cdrecord: 1.1.9

cdrecord

scsidev: ‘/dev/sr0’
devname: ‘/dev/sr0’
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.9
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Driveropts: ‘burnfree’
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : ‘HL-DT-ST’
Identification : 'DVDRAM GH22NS50 ’
Revision : ‘TN02’
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0012 (DVD-RAM)
Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) (current)
Profile: 0x0015 (DVD-R/DL sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0016 (DVD-R/DL layer jump recording)
Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite)
Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW)
Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R)
Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL)
Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM)
Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R)
Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW)
Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM)
Profile: 0x0002 (Removable disk)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1048576 = 1024 KB
Drive DMA Speed: 17723 kB/s 100x CD 12x DVD
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Speed set to 22160 KB/s
Track 01: data 4201 MB
Total size: 4825 MB (478:02.82) = 2151212 sectors
Lout start: 4825 MB (478:04/62) = 2151212 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
HINT: use dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools for information extraction.
Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 147284
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 17.0 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 2 seconds.
1 seconds.
0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer … input buffer ready.
Performing OPC…
Sending CUE sheet…
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 0 of 4201 MB written.
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 2A 00 00 0C 30 05 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 200s
/usr/bin/wodim: A write error occured.
/usr/bin/wodim: Please properly read the error message above.
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Writing time: 43.465s
Average write speed 111.0x.
Fixating…
Fixating time: 0.013s
/usr/bin/wodim: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
/usr/bin/wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.

cdrecord command:

/usr/bin/wodim -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/sr0 speed=16 -sao driveropts=burnfree -data -tsize=2151212s -

The DVD drive is new. It can read DVDs, but never burned one. Could it be a hardware problem?

Any help will bw much appreciated!

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All that fiddling is not needed
Please do this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Switcher%20Pics/packman.jpg

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Am 2011-02-24 13:36, schrieb caf4926:
>
> All that fiddling is not needed
> Please do this:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Switcher%20Pics/packman.jpg
>

I get a virus alert from GData and the website blocked. What is
going on? False positive, or really malware somewhere?

Christoph

–
email:
nurfuerspam → gmx
de → net

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Thanks!
I did this. There were conflicts: the list below show what I chose (see the checked boxes). Unfortunately things don’t work: reading DVDs is OK, as before; burning destroys discs immediately…

YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2011-02-25 12:26:28

niente fornisce gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base >= 0.10.32 necessario a gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.24-999.pm.1002.1.i586

[X] Installa gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.15-3.3.1.i586 dal repository escluso

 ] Disinstallazione di gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.15-3.2.i586

 ] Danneggiare gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good ignorando alcune delle sue dipendenze

niente fornisce gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base >= 0.10.32 necessario a gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.17-999.pm.1000.2.i586

 ] Disinstallazione di gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-2.4.i586

 ] Danneggiare gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly ignorando alcune delle sue dipendenze

[X] mantieni l'obsoleto gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-2.4.i586

gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.19-999.pm.1014.1.i586 richiede alsa, ma non è possibile fornire questa richiesta
provider non installabili: alsa-1.0.21-3.2.i586[Switch]
alsa-1.0.21-3.2.i586[openSUSE 11.2-0]
alsa-1.0.21-3.2.i586[openSUSE-11.2-OssopenSUSE-11.2-Oss]
] Danneggiare gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad ignorando alcune delle sue dipendenze

 ] mantieni l'obsoleto gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.13-2.2.i586

 ] Disinstallazione di gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.13-2.2.i586

[X] Installa dialog-1.1-28.2.i586 dal repository escluso

YaST2 conflicts list END

PS: the above is from a 2nd attempt. The first attempt gave a very long conflict list (sorry didn’t save the txt of it), where I chose to uninstall all the uncompatible packages, which of course disabled the sound card, for example. Then I re-did the Multimedia in One Click, and changed system packages to Packman again: the present list comes from this 2nd attempt… anyway I think I’m giving up :frowning:
Thanks again.

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Try doing this during the switch
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/one_click_mmedia/oneclick_install_gnome/gnome12.png

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I had the same problem with about the same drive (GH22LS50, the LightScribe enabled version) on 11.2. The only way I got it to work was to upgrade to 11.3. I think it was a kernel problem with the SATA driver; now it works fine, but I do have a whole pile of extra coasters :(.

BTW, this is probably not the best place for H/W problems.

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Thank you guys for all the advices! I really appreciate it.

To caf4926: I’ll try the “allow vendor change” option. I can afford another coaster if it doesn’t work.
To GeoBaltz: If the above fails, I’ll upgrade to 11.3.

I’ll keep you updated on results, although it’ll take some time in case I have to upgrade.

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Hi,

after all there must be a problem with the drive.

I ran mmcheck to be sure all packages are installed from the correct source: if any package was from the “wrong” source I removed and re-installed: this was done to try and polish the situation a little bit. Then I re-ran multimedia in one click and switched system packages to the version in the Packman Repository all right… tried to burn a new DVD from an iso image and got one more coaster!

Cheched the FAQs in the website of k3b and ran hdparm:

hdparm -v /dev/sr0:

multcount = 0 (off)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

There’s an inappropriate ioctl (input/output control?) for the device: this sounds to me a very serious low-level problem. It is also impossible to enable DMA. The ioctl error appears elsewhere in these forums again in connection with the LG DVDRAM GH22NS50, which really does not seem to work with Opensuse 11.2.

The obvious message for anyone interested seems to be “check your hardware compatibility first” before doing anything else.

Here’s the latest error log from k3b, just in case…

Bye

Devices

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS50 TN02 (/dev/sr0, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R sequenziale, DVD-R sequenziale a doppio strato, DVD-R jump a doppio strato, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW a riscrittura limitata, DVD-RW sequenziale, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R a doppio strato, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Riscrittura limitata, Livello Jump] %7]

K3b::DataTrackReader

reading sectors 0 to 648399 with sector size 2048. Length: 648400 sectors, 1327923200 bytes.
using buffer size of 64 blocks.
Read a total of 648400 sectors (1327923200 bytes)

System

K3b Version: 2.0.2
KDE Version: 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5) “release 0”
QT Version: 4.5.3
Kernel: 2.6.31.14-0.4-desktop

Used versions

cdrecord: 1.1.9

cdrecord

scsidev: ‘/dev/sr0’
devname: ‘/dev/sr0’
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.9
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Driveropts: ‘burnfree’
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : ‘HL-DT-ST’
Identification : 'DVDRAM GH22NS50 ’
Revision : ‘TN02’
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0012 (DVD-RAM)
Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) (current)
Profile: 0x0015 (DVD-R/DL sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0016 (DVD-R/DL layer jump recording)
Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite)
Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW)
Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R)
Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL)
Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM)
Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R)
Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW)
Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM)
Profile: 0x0002 (Removable disk)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1048576 = 1024 KB
Drive DMA Speed: 17674 kB/s 100x CD 12x DVD
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Speed set to 5540 KB/s
Track 01: data 1266 MB
Total size: 1454 MB (144:05.33) = 648400 sectors
Lout start: 1454 MB (144:07/25) = 648400 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
HINT: use dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools for information extraction.
Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 1650096
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 2 seconds.
1 seconds.
0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer … input buffer ready.
Performing OPC…
Sending CUE sheet…
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 0 of 1266 MB written.
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 2A 00 00 0C 30 05 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x05 (cannot write medium - incompatible format) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 200s
/usr/bin/wodim: A write error occured.
/usr/bin/wodim: Please properly read the error message above.
write track data: error after 0 bytes
Writing time: 32.936s
Average write speed 33.7x.
Fixating…
Fixating time: 0.012s
/usr/bin/wodim: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
/usr/bin/wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.

cdrecord command:

/usr/bin/wodim -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/sr0 speed=4 -sao driveropts=burnfree -data -tsize=648400s -