So I recently made my way to openSuse after trying the more familiar (to me) ditros on a netbook. I have two, a gateway that I started with ubuntu, then mint, then Fedora. I never had any trouble with video playback with those distros. Someone gave me an HP mini and I put openSuse on it but just recently found that the videos would play sound but no video in all of my players (Kaffiene, mplayer, VLC). VLC was the only one that gave me an error message about missing codecs that could not be fixed. I checked the forums for solutions and found some but not being the Linux super fast genius that I wish I was, I found that time was not on my side as I tried to fix mt issue. I did however make sure all codecs were installed.
A couple days later I was playing around with Zypper and was wondering upgrading my system from the cl (google is my Linux teacher…well the search results are). I found the zypper dup command and rean it out of curiosity and found that alot of my apps could be upgraded. Many times I have bricked my computer out of trial and error and just did a fresh install to fix so I figured what the hay. I hit the “y” and let it roll.
After all the apps were upgraded or downgraded, (apparently the arch on most of my apps were i386 and were getting the bump to to i586 to match as close as possible to my processor) I tried out all the movies I was trying to watch and the all worked!
So I accidentally fixed my issue by trying something that could have bricked me again. So far all is working well and I hope that someone else might be able to shed more light on this so that it may help others.
Thanks for reading. And if this is in the wrong place, my apologies to the moderators that have to fix my mistake.