I have VLC trying to show a MakeMKV stream (Bluray), it has worked for me on Ubuntu 12.04 and Fedora 17 so I decided to try it on openSUSE 12.1, but even though I can hear it, I can’t see the video, I am getting very disappointed with openSUSE lately, first I had to install it using nomodeset at installation so it will show me the installation, now this, I have not had these problems with any other distro but I like openSUSE more than them all, but so far it’s disappointing me.
Any ideas? to see if I can finally get my favorite distro of Linux to work for me.
You need to tell us what kind of video system you are using. If you must use the nomodeset command, then you are dropping back to a less capable video driver. If this is an AMD or nVIDIA video system, you need to consider loading the proprietary video driver or in all cases an upgrade to your main kernel version, which updates all of the built-in drivers, including for video. Next, you must be using the Packman repository and have fully updated all packages that can be loaded from Packman. Finally, blu-ray support, if we are talking about encrypted movie support, it does not yet exist though blu-ray data disks are supported.
what output video mode have you selected with vlc ? ie vlc > tools > preferences > video > output ? … If default does not work, try something conservative like ‘X11 output (XCB)’ or possibly (but maybe less likely to work) ‘XVideo output (XCB)’ . You may need to restart vlc after each for them to work properly. You can also try some of the other output video modes.
I will try both of your suggestions, I’ll let you know which one works for me, but I don’t think AMD has a driver for Linux, last time I checked it had only for Guindows, so I might try Kernel 3.4 and see how it goes.
It depends on your graphic hardware. Some AMD hardware is considered ‘legacy’ hardware and it is not supported by AMD. Other (newer) AMD hardware is not considered Legacy and AMD do provide a reasonable proprietary driver (IMHO) [albeit while better than the GNU/Linux open source graphic driver, it is not as good as the MS-Windows proprietary graphic driver]. For example my Radeon HD3450 graphics in my laptop currently has AMD proprietary graphic driver support (although I have read that is about to end soon).
oldcup - sorry to jump on a thread but I had a similiar issue with vlc (it would play audio fine but only a small range of video - all of which would play fine with mplayer etc). I changed the video output to X11 output (XCB) and all videos worked fine. Changed the setting back to default and they carried on playing fine.
I noticed this, even though it worked, my screen resolution was not right, so I checked for drivers and it did not have my card’s drivers, so I decided to research how Fedora was giving me the right settings and better results, and found out that they use a package called xorg-x11-drv-ati for my video card that works just fine and gives better results.
Now, does anybody know if openSUSE includes something like this package with it? I know there is another one called xorg-x11-drv-nvidia found in the rpmfusion (I think) repo.
If there is somebody from openSUSE reading these forums, please let us know.