Unable to play DVD's or audio on Suse 11.1

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Hi

New to Linux and just done a fresh install of 11.1 with Gnome. Followed the enclosed thread to the letter to install codecs for MP3 and DVD

Restricted Formats/11.1 - openSUSE-Community

Result is that Totem errors with “Your Gstreamer installation is missing a plug-in”, whilst trying to play a DVD

If I put an audio CD in, then I get a suse error "Unable to mount Audio disc. Cannot find drive/dev/sr0

Just feels so disappointing to fail at such a basic level of functionality.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

David

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re-install the codecs from the one-click you posted above. But, select amarok with it. Best approach is to be on the network at the time so it can pull from online repos for deps and what not. Then use amarok to play CD’s. IMHO Amarok’s more uber… especially when you enable the mysql backend to keep track of your 3k plus mp3 tracks. For DVD’s, mplayer should also be with amarok when you select it. Mplayer is a bit more powerful than totem. I’m personally not a big fan of totem when you have VLC, Mplayer, and Amarok around.

If you still want it your way… yast>SWM>Search:gstream make sure gstream and the fluendo plugin are installed. The rest of the plugins should be automatically selected by yast as “dependencies”. If not, right click “update” should fix that. Two things to keep in mind. Be online to the latest from the repos and make sure the packman repo is enabled and has a LOWER priority number than the download.opensuse.org repos.

As far as the mount thing… next time it happens get the output of the following (as root of course):

mount
pwd
w
lsof | grep -i /dev/sr0
lsof | grep -i /dev/cdr

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Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums

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Thanks Guys

@psybernetik - the 1-click codec install is supposed to install Amarok according to the instructions. It clearly doesn’t as its not on my system. So are you suggesting that I install the codecs again and then install Amarok seperately via yast ?

Thanks for your help

David

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Yes and No… Amarok is in there… but it’s not selected by default… don’t ask me why. when you run the one-click there’s a button somewhere that says “Customise”… stare at it a while … grab a cup of coffee… then click on it. The “apps” are all checked EXCEPT mplayer and amarok… at least it wasn’t for me and the systems I used it on. Do not use the “normal” yast to install it. Novell had disable all the fun goodies due to legal BS. That is to say no mp3 support and no using Mysql for a DB backend on your music library… gawd that makes it uber fast looking for a song.

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All fixed now, but I found that pretty difficult. That 1-click install of multimedia packages needs to be looked at. It just didn’t work for me.

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Linux wouldn’t be fun if it wasn’t a challenge… :wink: