hi all, I am a new openSUSE user here, having problem with VLC
I was converting h264 file videos to h265 using VLC. the VLC seem running as it would.
but in the end (after hours of transcoding), the output is only a 1.3kb file for each input file.
I repeated the process 2 more times and got the same results.
i have installed the multimedia codecs using 1-click-installer from opensuse-community.org, except for vlc-codecs package that is not available for Leap 15.3
perhaps it was caused by my small swap partition? the size files i was trying to transcode is larger than 4Gb, and my swap partition is only 2 Gb.
Not sure what is the problem, probably you used the GUI and because of that you did not see error messages.
Try to run vlc from the command line, you can add “-v 1” or “-v 2” for more verbose output.
I would give FFmpeg on the command line a try, although I see ffmpeg on Tumbleweed does not support h265, although ffmpeg does, so you can try a static build package.
Kdenlive will convert from h264 to h265 but that relies on you having the packman versions of everything installed. If you go into Yast>Software management and select the packman repository, you will see an option to convert all relevant installed software to the packman version.
I did reinstalling tumbleweed, but still no luck with using VLC for transcoding to h265.
So, I ended up using Handbreak instead.
I am happy with the openSUSE-KDE and will continue using it.
It feels much lighter than other debian/ubuntu-based and arch-based KDE distros that I have tried.