?ann ?ri 21.sep 2010 20:43, skrifa?i Robert Marma: > Hi all, > > Again, I realize that this forum is devoted primarily to > Scribus users and their problems, but I was hoping to get > help with two additional problems: --------------- (1) > Has anyone in the group had any experience with media > players in openSUSE? I could get neither Banshee nor > Totem--the default Gnome media players--to play ANY of my > video files. Then I recalled having used VLC in Windows > a few years ago, and decided to check out their web site. > Being a Newbie, I wasn't sure about the installation > procedure, but tried downloading their latest RPM, and > the package installer took care of the rest. To my utter > amazement, VLC played EVERY video file format perfectly, > except for my .mov files, which it also played, but in a > jumpy, hesitating fashion. --------- Bob Marma [ Scribus > "Newbie" and Linux "Newborn" ] > This is a bit OT for the Scribus list, but I hope people don't mind.
I'm using KDE on OpenSuse, but I don't think that matters: (1) I have already responded that you should activate both Packman and VideoLAN (VLC) repositories: <http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories> (and the before-mentionned mrdocs repo for Scribus ;-) Once setup and refreshed, you'd search for packages containing 'codecs', there's a bunch you may not be interested in but if you don't mind using 'non-free' stuff you should at least install w32codec-all (and its 64bit counterpart if you run 64bit system). There are other w32codec packages with more limited set of codecs. To decently play .MOV files you could install RealPlayer/Helix or simply the libquicktime0 package but I think VLC should handle it if set up from the VideoLAN repo (which contains several additional/advanced packages you'd not get by installing from a single .rpm. The VideoLAN repo also contains libdvdcss which renders your DVD-drives immune to regional restrictions - using it is illegal in some parts of the world!). You may also be interested in programs like MPlayer, a heavy-duty media player which can be run 'headless' from command-line/scripts. Actually I use more its (included) alter-ego MEncoder to re-encode/repair videos via scripts or the QVideoConverter GUI. Very neat to rotate video files from compact cameras (yes, some people shoot videos in portrait mode...). MPlayer/MEncoder play/encode about anything if the codecs exist on your system. Hope this is of some help, Sveinn ? Felli
