Hi, I am setting up an installation of Tumbleweed on a machine (different machine than prior post). I have a USB with a couple .mp4 files desktop backgrounds etc. I notice that one .mp4 will open in VLC, sound is heard but no video is displayed. Another .mp3 file appears to display fine in VLC.
I wanted to get your thoughts on if it is absolutely required to install Packman Essentials in order to achieve the most robust multimedia capability possible?
Well I found that using Essentials was not sufficient for full multimedia compatibility, so I now use the full Packman and zypper dup with that and now ALL my multimedia works that I’ve needed so far.
Stuart
Paul, why are you making your life so hard? Just cut the decision: Packman always / never ( A /N ). It’s pretty useless to go through all the same hoops over and over again.
An extensive thread here
TLDR: if you have a recent Nvidia GPU with proprietary drivers (like here) you need nothing else:
LT-B:~ # zypper lr -dE
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Keep | Priority | Type | URI | Service
---+----------------------------+-------------------+---------+-----------+---------+------+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------+---------
5 | LocalRepo | LocalRepo | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | plaindir | dir:/home/bruno/LocalRepo |
6 | NVIDIA:repo-non-free | repo-non-free | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed | NVIDIA
11 | openSUSE:repo-non-oss | repo-non-oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss | openSUSE
13 | openSUSE:repo-oss | repo-oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss | openSUSE
16 | openSUSE:update-tumbleweed | update-tumbleweed | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed | openSUSE
LT-B:~ #
If not so, using gstreamer based players you may just need openh264:
12 | openSUSE:repo-openh264 | repo-op-> | No | ---- | ---- | - | 99 | rpm-md | https://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed | openSUSE
if no HW decoding and needing ffmpeg based players you need Packman Essentials.
AFAIK you need the full Packman only to gain HW decoding with old AMD chips needing the Packman Mesa drivers.
Repos here:
dell-optiplex-9020:~ # zypper lr -dE
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Keep | Priority | Type | URI | Service
--+----------------------------------+----------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+------+----------+--------+---------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss | Main Repository (NON-OSS) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/ |
2 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Main Repository (OSS) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ |
3 | download.opensuse.org-tumbleweed | Main Update Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/ |
6 | repo-openh264 | Open H.264 Codec (openSUSE Tumbleweed) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | - | 99 | rpm-md | http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed |
dell-optiplex-9020:~ #
I have installed mpv player and so far it plays the .mp4's from my setup-test usb medium very well. Also the information panel in Dolphin displays the .mp4 and photo previews etc correctly from what I can tell.
Side note: The Dell Optiplex 9020 here has Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2).
This is working absolutely superb so far. Thank you for your thoughts on this.