vlc player does not play mkv and/or AVI

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I am clueless,

I installed vlc player and i am not able to play mkv files
when i used ubuntu, it worked perfectly

upon start i get the error:
vlc does not support H264. Unable to fix that
vlc does not support a52. Unable to fix that

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The VLC included with the distribution is ‘crippled’ due to patents and licensing, you’ll need to use VLC from the Packman repository.

Take a peek here;
http://opensuse-guide.org/codecs.php

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These kind of threads pop up here at regular intervals.

I don’t understand why the error message says that there is no way to fix that. That is confusing. It should say: “Please install VLC from Packman!” But I guess that would violate rights or whatever. At least the error message could refer you to this Forum. That would be sensible.

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made it:cool:

after installation of vlc from packman, i installed all codecs, included:
zypper install vlc-codecs

thank you very much