no mater avi. wmv or flv. All the three files I downloaded can not been played by Banshee.

I got the message like below when I use search the code, so I installed all the Gstreamer I can find.

* Windows Media decoder (GStreamer, 32 bit, i586)
* Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) demuxer (GStreamer, 32 bit, i586)

During that I also did some update, but the problem still the same.

Can you play the media types through any other media player?

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I do not know what else I can use in Suse now

I believe a number of the non-free gstreamer packages are in the packman repository.
http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/Packman
http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_pa...tories#Packman

The following should cover all your bases:
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra

Non-gstreamer based media players include mplayer and VLC. In some cases, distros provide a stripped down version of these players in their regular repositories, with the non-free components removed. There are usually full versions available in 3rd party or special non-free repositories.

I checked I have all the gstreamer you list here. I still got the message "Search for suitable codec". The Totem gave back the same messages.

I really can not understand this.

After several different tries, I finally installed MPlayer and can easily watch all the files I can not open before. But when I tried to open the application from the menu and open the same file, I got the message like below.

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out(-vo) device.

Can somebody explain what make that happened to me?

By the way Banshee still tell me there is no code to play the file.

Mplayer supports using a number of different video output devices. That error suggests the driver it's set to use or defaulting to is not installed. There should be a preferences menu where you can change the default driver. X11 should always work.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/MPlayer.html#video