Hi there,

I'm new to SuSe and wanted to have Mplayer, since all multimedia sotware that they supply is quite useless - cant play DVD's or DivX (it's becouse of of copyright issues, but then why bother to put this there if it is so worthless anyway? ..)

Ok, at first I got the source and wanted to compile it, but it turned out that there was no X11 dev enviroment on SuSe 9.3 that is neeeded for Mplayer ( also licence issue ). Then I got it to compile ( no gui )but it doesn't do anything exept playing mp3's - no DivX or Dvd's - although I've put all all needed codecs to /usr/local/lib/codecs ,dependencies solved, Win32 codecs etc...

I hear lots of people say Mplayer is good but no matter how many times I was messing with it in differdent distros like Debian ( at least it got better package manager..), I could never make it do all things it was promissed to do

After all I resorted to rpm, but those dont get installed too - some libmp3lame.so.0
libtheora.so.0(libtheora.so.1.0) and I dont know where to find it;(

Trying to copmile other engines for xine leads to even greatter dependency hell...
I'm getting tired of this and thinking of going back to Debian..

My question is : anyone knowlegable in this issue, who has experience with SuSe and multiemedia, could you give a tip on this problem ?

Will be most appreciated.

check out this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/t369329.html

Adding the "Packman" source to YaST is what I did, and it's a pretty simple process. BTW Welcome to LQ!

Thank you so much,

I ve been looking for this source in Novell site and it's not there..

Everything works now !

Cool, glad to hear that it's all set up, and thanks for posting back with a followup.