Just installed 12.3 (new install) with KDE desktop on my T42 laptop and done all the updates, one click multimedia and switches to Packman. I have found saved movies which played well with VLC on 12.2 are a disaster now; frozen frames, pixelated images, long pauses. Could somebody give me a clue please where to look for a solution.
Budgie2
I you are willing to try out other options I would recommend switching to mplayer based players like smplayer,umplayer etc…
Hi and thanks for the tip. I tried smplayer and it was much better although no better than VLC used to be on 12.2.
There have been some recent updates so I tried VLC again on a video download shared over the lan using NFS. I am now getting error messages thus:-
No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "h264". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "mp4a". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
This is clearly wrong since VLC played these videos the same way over NFS share with previous installation.
Any ideas what might be wrong
Do you have “vlc-codecs” installed ?
similar failure indication experienced
check the following packages are installed (assuming 64bit in use)
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.23-19.10.x86_64
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13-2000.7.x86_64
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-fluendo_mp3-0.10.18-3.9.x86_64
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-10.12.x86_64
kaffeine-1.2.2-78.2.x86_64
libavcodec52-0.7.15-1.5.x86_64
libavfilter1-0.7.15-1.5.x86_64
libavformat52-0.7.15-1.5.x86_64
libavutil50-0.7.15-1.5.x86_64
libcdaudio1-0.99.12-161.1.1.x86_64
libdirectfb-1_6-0-1.6.2-3.1.1.x86_64
liblrdf2-0.4.0-143.1.1.x86_64
libmusicbrainz4-2.1.5-24.1.1.x86_64
libofa0-0.9.3-96.1.1.x86_64
libpostproc51-0.7.15-1.5.x86_64
libswscale0-0.7.15-1.5.x86_64
libtimidity-0_1-0-0.1.0-12.1.1.x86_64
libxine2-1.2.2-83.1.x86_64
libxine2-codecs-1.2.2-83.1.x86_64
libXvMC1-1.0.7-4.1.1.x86_64
vlc-codecs-2.0.6-115.3.x86_64
after the above install vlc worked at least as well as with 12.2
kaffeine works but not as nice as vlc for music and DVD’s
hth
Well, at least the gstreamer packages are not needed for VLc…
@Budgie2:
Do you have an NVIDIA card and are using the proprietary driver?
Then please have a look at the Release Notes
That could very well explain your performance problems…
Why were the packages,
kaffeine-1.2.2-78.2.x86_64
libxine2-1.2.2-83.1.x86_64
libxine2-codecs-1.2.2-83.1.x86_64
also not mentioned?
Because they were at the end of the list, and I didn’t want to check all as I wrote my answer…
Also, I do prefer kaffeine.
(works better with DVB-S)
I had the same problem and installing vlc-codecs solved the problem.
I wonder why it’s not installed by default …
On 04/15/2013 08:46 PM, PiElle wrote:
> installing vlc-codecs solved the problem.
> I wonder why it’s not installed by default .
openSUSE does not distribute any codecs…
because they are not open source, and may me illegal in some
jurisdictions…
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dd
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!
Thanks for this. Answer no and now they are installed I have picture back but pixellation still there and long freezes whilst sound continues. Strange that I never had this problem with 12.2. Other players working as normal.
Will go through the dependencies list and check. Meanwhile if anybody has any ideas please advise.
Budgie2
If using using nvidia on 12.3 the “user” accounts need to be associated to “video” group
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/i386/openSUSE/12.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#idm1261534012