After Googling and trying everything I still can’t play movies on Gnome videos or VLC Player (Beta) in Tumbleweed.
Pacman repo is enabled; h264bitstream and libx264-148 are installed.
Anyone know how to install all the required multimedia codecs?
For me, following operations worked. Maybe you could try it as well. NOTE: assuming VLC Player is used. ref: http://opensuse-guide.org/codecs.php
Note: this will replace your VLC player BETA to a stable version in packman!!!
- Add pacman repo,
zypper addrepo -f http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ packman
- Install codes and VLC player
zypper install vlc vlc-codecs k3b-codecs ffmpeg lame gstreamer-plugins-libav gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-fluendo-mp3 libdvdcss2
- Update these installed package to those in pacman repo
zypper dist-upgrade --from packman
Running the most recent snapshot of Tumbleweed here. GNOME3 “Videos” will not work regardless of what codecs you install, because it’s most likely not compiled with support for those codecs. If VLC doesn’t work for some reason, I recommend the CLI multimedia player mpv. For me it always works :).
Thank you cnzhx.
VLC Player working now, but not yet Gnome Player as AndyMender also reports.
Thank you both again.
adding packman and installing a few packages is not enough you need to replace all multimedia packages ie do a full vendor change
so tell us your repo list
zypper lr -d
I haven’t used gnome in ages but totem (or gnome videos) is not compiled with codecs it uses gstreamer as a multimedia (codec) backend that being said a full vendor change will get working version of gstreamer
TW users after initial configuration need to run zypper as
zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change
as zypper dup pulls then newest packages from any repo and will replace working packman packages with restricted ones from OSS
Output:
~> zypper lr -d
Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.
| Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
–±----------------------------------±----------------------------±--------±----------±--------±---------±-------±------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | http-ftp.uni-erlangen.de-8c3e4547 | Packman Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed |
2 | packman | packman | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
3 | repo-debug | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Debug | No | ---- | ---- | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ |
4 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/ |
5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ |
6 | repo-source | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Source | No | ---- | ---- | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/source/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ |
7 | repo-update | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/ |
packman should have a higher priority then the oss repo try
zypper mr -p 90 1
the above will set packman to priority 90 (in opensuse smaller means higher priority 1 is top 99 is bottom)
to get multimedia working (totem playing video’s) do a full vendor change with packman (repo #1)
zypper dup --from 1
Thank you Wisepenguin (and all).
Everything working perfectly now.
Linux and OpenSuse are simply the Best!
Worked for me, thanks
Thanks 
This four year old thread saved me after i broke my head for an hour trying to get h264 to work