Hi,
With a recent update on OpenSuse 12.2, VLC does not play any video. I tried re-installing VLC but still does not work.
Kaffeine is able to play all video files without issues.
Any ideas?
-Prad
su -
zypper in vlc-codecs
vlc-codecs installed ? (this is a relatively new requirement)
Thanks both of you. Working fine now. 
you are welcome
Hi guys. I had a similar issue with VLC on openSUSE 12.3 64 bit KDE. It complained of there being no available codecs when I tried to play my MP4 or MKV files. I found this thread today and installed vlc-codecs, but now whenever I try to play those files the desktop completely freezes up. Nothing will recover it either. I cannot reset X with ctrl-alt-backspace or alt-print screen-k, and neither would the gentle REISUB reset work. I’ve removed vlc-codecs but now while it doesn’t freeze the desktop any more, it won’t play my files. I’ve never had to hard reboot openSUSE before. What’s wrong here? Many thanks.
If VLC doesn’t work,try exploring players like smplayer and umplayer.
A hard freeze points to a problem in dealing with the hardware, so my
guess is problems with the graphics card (driver) is the first thing to
look at. What do you have as GPU and what driver do you use?
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PC: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.10.2 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.10.2 | HD 3000
HannsBook: oS 12.3 x86_64 | SU4100@1.3GHz | 2GB | KDE 4.10.2 | GMA4500
Hi, thanks for your replies. Martin, I think you are correct in your assumption that this is a graphics driver issue. I have just tried alternative media players as per vazhavandan above, and they freeze the machine in exactly the same way. So this obviously isn’t solely a VLC issue.
I am using the proprietary fglrx64 AMD Catalyst driver on a AMD Radeon HD 7520G. I get this driver from Index of /mirror/amd-fglrx. I am fully up to date regards openSUSE updates, and also the driver is the latest one. Many thanks.
Am 04.05.2013 13:36, schrieb Kinzie:
> I am using the proprietary fglrx64 AMD Catalyst driver on a AMD Radeon
> HD 7520G. I get this driver from ‘Index of /mirror/amd-fglrx’
> (http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/amd-fglrx). I am fully up to date regards
> openSUSE updates, and also the driver is the latest one. Many thanks.
>
I am afraid I cannot help with this one (I am a pure nvidia and intel
graphics user).
Maybe even worth a new thread with a descriptive title to get the
attention from the AMD experts unless someone jumps in here and know how
to diagnose and solve that.
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PC: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.10.2 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.10.2 | HD 3000
HannsBook: oS 12.3 x86_64 | SU4100@1.3GHz | 2GB | KDE 4.10.2 | GMA4500
Thanks for your continued responses. I think I may have fixed it. I found a forum post over on the Arch forums that suggested setting VLC to openGL output would solve it. This was for a user who was having seemingly exactly the same problem as me. So I re-installed vlc-codecs, enabled this setting, and restarted VLC. Upon trying to play the same files, I find they now play fine.
Hopefully this will prove a permanent solution. Thanks again for your help.
Just as a wee addendum, there still seems to be the same problem when using Kaffeine, Mplayer, or SMPlayer etc. I’ve tried all of these since fixing VLC and there is still the freezing issue. However VLC still seems to be working fine, so I suppose I’ll just have to remove the others for now.
Thanks.
At least in smplayer and mplayer you can also set the backend for the
video in the menu, have you tried to change it to opengl?
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PC: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.10.2 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.3 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.10.2 | HD 3000
HannsBook: oS 12.3 x86_64 | SU4100@1.3GHz | 2GB | KDE 4.10.2 | GMA4500
you can set video output in all almost all mplayer based front ends.
I did not know that, so thanks for letting me know. I re-installed SMplayer, and easily found the option to set OpenGL in the video settings. This worked without any issue. Can Kaffeine be set to OpenGL output also? I couldn’t find anything in the options.
Well would you look at that. My Google-Fu obviously stinks!
Sorted. Thanks, and out.
i use dogpile-fu.