Tumbleweed Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)

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Hello,
I’m new to suse and I can’t make video codecs run on tumbleweed.
I have this error in vlc Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format “h264” (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)
Please help!
Thnak you,
Stefan

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Proprietary Codecs must come from the packman repository. openSUSE only ships with open source (note the name)

Best way is to change vendors to packman

easy way

Add packman via Yast - Repository management

then at a comman prompt

zypper lr -d

note the number of the packman repo

then

sudo zypper dup --from #

where # is the number of the number of the packman repo

This will bring in and change vendor for all proprietary formats

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Hi
Just to clarify packman is a preferred third party repo not a ‘must’, if the user only wants to use VLC, then consider videolan, then there is always fluendo codecs… :wink:

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thank you mr wizzards!

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Note do not mix video lan and packman it leads to heart ache. Also you may not codecs for other applications if you use videolan repo.