I can’t get my media to play. I click on the song I want and it just hangs there. When I go to configure amarok and hit test sound it plays just fine. I’ve installed the packman repo and followed other instructions on getting media to work but I just get nothing.
I am getting so frustrated… I’m getting to the point that I’m about ready to just wipe opensuse off my system and re-install ubuntu because it might be a quicker solution to getting my simple mp3’s to play.
Hi,
Sorry for your frustrations. I know how hard it can be adapting to new systems. Please refer to this post on getting multimedia and restricted codecs working on your system.
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums
Note: you did not tell us which version of openSUSE you are using. If you scroll down from that post I linked to, you can find instructions for newer versions of openSUSE as well.
Take Care,
Ian
Using 11.2 KDE,
I’ve got media working now on everything but amarok. For some reason it just won’t play the **** mp3’s. I’ve downloaded banshee and it works just fine, not sure why amarok won’t play. Which really sucks because all of the widgets utilize amarok and don’t seem to respond to banshee. Amarok just doesn’t even seem to attempt to play the mp3’s, it just sits there after I hit play. If I continually hit play a small message in the lower left hand corner appears that says operation has stopped due to errors.
Did you try that guide I pointed to?
Make sure Amarok is installed from Packman or a KDE repository as the Amarok that comes with openSUSE is limited . Also make sure you have libxine and libxine-codecs installed.
If you do these and it still doesn’t work, then please open a terminal and provide the output of:
zypper lr -d
Take Care,
Ian
Yes,
I’ve tried the guide which afterwards kaffine started working normal but amarok has yet to do so. here is the output to that command.
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
–±-------------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | Packman Repository | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /suse/11.2/ |
2 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:/// |
3 | packman | packman | Yes | No | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /suse/11.2 |
4 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss |
6 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
7 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.2-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.2 |
Hmm. Well, let’s do this manually then (with a little help of the commands from caf at this thread)
open a terminal, become root using su and copy and paste these commands:
zypper rr 3
zypper rr 1
zypper ar -f http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.2/ packman
zypper ref
zypper dup -r packman
Then logout and log back in and see if that works.
Take Care,
Ian
Well that was a step backwards, now not only does amarok not play mp3’s now neither does banshee which was before.
Well I guess we can try this with the gui, with a method that has NEVER failed me. First, let’s make sure your repositories are still good.
Please post the output of:
zypper lr -d
And I’ll let you know my method of getting things working properly.
Take Care,
Ian
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
–±-------------------±----------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | KDE:Backports | KDE:Backports | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_11.2 |
2 | Packman Repository | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /suse/11.2/ |
3 | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
4 | packman | packman | Yes | No | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /suse/11.2 |
5 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss |
7 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
8 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.2-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.2 |
Also,
Thanks for taking the time to help me out.
I really don’t get how you keep having two packman repositories. Anyways, let’s see if we can do this the GUI way.
Please open Yast and then open Yast Software Repositories. Delete repositories 2 and 4 that I have highlighted.
Next, Click the Add button and choose Community then next. It will take about a minute or so to load the community repositories. Next, mark the Packman repository to be added and click Ok (or accept or whatever it is). If it asks you to import a keyring Import it. It will bring you back to the repository lists, click Ok to accept the changes you made.
Next, open up Yast Software Management. If it didn’t ask you to import the keyring during the addition of the packman repository it will ask you now while it’s refreshing the lists, Import the keyring if it asks. Once Software Management is loaded search for and mark for installation these packages:
w32codec-all
ffmpeg (it will also mark other needed ffmpeg packages for installation)
xine (you will already have versions installed, but what you’ll do is click on any xine packages and where you see the description of the package, click the versions tab and switch any packages to the Packman repository that can be switched)
amarok (I see you have the kde backports repository so make sure amarok is installed from there using the same method you used for xine)
kaffeine (same as amarok)
gstreamer (for banshee you’ll want fluendo-mp3, good, bad, and ugly also making sure that they’re the ones from the packman repository)
Once you have all of those, click accept, and once it’s finished downloading and installing, log in and back out, and you should be good to go!
Take Care,
Ian