While this may be a problem I have seen before, and I will be honest, I have only tried a half dozen things, not everything in every post remotely about the subject...

I have Amarok installed and Xine installed from the SuSE discs, and as many are aware they are... handicapable. They do not play DVDs, they do not play mp3s, etc etc. I cannot uninstall them, or install non SuSE versions(from anywhere, mostly notably packman and guru) without backing down beagle, more than 50 gnome packages(and I am a KDE user), a bunch of kde and kdelib, a bunch of 32bit stuff I didn't even know was installed, and about a total of 500 things. This functionallys drops the KDE 3.4, Xorg 6.8, and quite a few other low end non impressive versions I have no intention of using.

There are also packages like kaffeine-mozilla and a few other sporadic ones that cause this same error set if I try to install them.

Has anyone found a good way of doing this?

In the mean time I am using xmms and mplayer exclusively. Which is okay, but not the best situation.

You have to compile xine yourself, taking care of not building gxine. I think you disable gxine at the ./configure phase, but as i didn't experienced this myself, i can't be affirmative.

And I assume I would do the same for Amarok huh? Just build both from source and that skirts around the dependencies because those are put into the rpm, not necessarily the actual requirements.

I just went to the XineHQ website, found an RPM and installed it right on top of Suse's version of Xine. Everything still works (music in Amarok; video in Kaffine, including those extra codecs).

This was in SuSE 10 with 64 bit?

Cause the 9.2 32bit would be TOTALLY different. Even SuSE 10 32bit is totally different from SuSE 10 64bit in terms of the workings of some of these things.

Not that I won't try it later, but I do not have faith.

Sorry, I should have specified versions.

My comments were referring to Suse 10.0, 32-bit.

They also applied with 9.3, but not to 9.2 (and earlier), because they didn't cripple that version; you still needed to install the codecs separately in 9.2, but not Xine.

I'm afraid I can't speak for the 64-bit version, but I would have expected it to work (relatively) similarly.

Hope that helps.

Actually that is exactly the problem. 64 bit doesn't work like 32 bit for many things. It is quite odd, but if you look around these forums, you will find 64bit across a few distros is closer to the same than 64vs32 in the same distro for many things. Sadly media is one of them.