I’m having a problem with vlc.
I have installed vlc and vlc-codecs, but when I try to play a mp4 video on VLC the sound plays but the video doesn’t.
I have installed the codecs from the packman repo and I am usng Tumbleweed with all the updates installed.
And are you sure that your ffmpeg, libav*, and all other associated multimedia libraries come from Packman?
Try to do a full repository vendor change update to Packman as explained here:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Vendor_change_update#Full_repository_Vendor_change
If that doesn’t help or you need further help, please post your repo list:
zypper lr -d
And some people reported problems with VDPAU, depending on the graphics card/driver.
Be sure that you don’t have vdpau-video installed if you don’t use the proprietary driver (if you do use that, try with and without, although it’s probably safer to just uninstall it in any case, VLC does support and prefer VDPAU anyway).
And also try to uninstall libvdpau_va_gl1, you shouldn’t use that with nvidia at all (it’s mainly intended for intel systems), but even on others it might cause problems. Or try to install it if you are not using nvidia and it isn’t installed.
Thanks for the tips wolfi323, but I dont have an NVIDIA card, openSUSE it’s installed on my lenovo s400 laptop.
I have changed the vendors of the codecs packages to packman, have installed ffmpeg and libav packages, don’t have the vdpau-video package installed and have the libvdpau_va_gl1 installed.
The strange thing is that the video opens in TOTEM, the problem only occours in VLC.
Hello,
Packman’s vlc is broken. It depends on libvpx1, which was replaced with libvpx2
And that’s not the only thing; some codecs (ffmpeg stuff) are broken too. Same reason.
I suppose, sooner or later, the packman guys will fix them. We just have to wait. 
In the meantime, you can use some other player. That’s what I am doing
If no, well… my entire reply is just a waste of space 
PD: VLC’s repo has the same problem
hi
The strange thing is that the video opens in TOTEM, the problem only occours in VLC.
for reference
you might want to include a MAJOR fact like that in the first post
that right there says that the issue is with VLC and not with missing libs and software
Well, there’s nothing to “fix” by the Packman guys.
The problem is that Packman’s Tumbleweed repo builds against a (weekly) Factory snapshot which still contains libvpx1.
(There is no such thing as Tumbleweed in OBS)
You can instead use Packman’s Factory repo for now, that builds against Factory directly and already has VLC built against libvpx2 AFAICS.
As I wrote, try to uninstall libvdpau_va_gl1. Some people reported problems with it and VLC on intel systems.
It is an intel “driver” for libvdpau, but VLC supports VA-API (libva) anyway so you don’t really need it.
The strange thing is that the video opens in TOTEM, the problem only occours in VLC.
As has been written already, Totem uses different libraries. It is based on gstreamer.
Thanks for the help, I removed the libvdpau_va_gl1 package and now the video is working fine.