Hello, When I try to play .ogm files (anime, of course) Kaffeine (and other programs) will give me sound but no video and the screen is black. I can choose subtitles and language in the options, but I can't find anything about the video.

While searching on google, I found out that I would have to add this to my xorg.conf:

but the xorg.conf says not to edit since it gets edited by Sax2 but in Sax2 there is nothing about changing it. Plus I found that in Xine documentation.


I also installed those 4 Multimedia packs along with some OGG and OGM packages, but no avail.

Anybody know what might be going on? Am I missing something?

I don't know if this will solve your problem or not (I don't recognize your media type), but it did resolve my issues with playing .avi and .wmv files. Maybe it will help you too.

Like you, I had installed all of the multimedia option packs, and SuSE would play .mpg and .mp3 files, but no joy on my .avi and .wmv files. I searched on the web and found that there is a site in Germany, where someone has rebuilt the relevant packages from scratch, not from "crippled source" like SuSE did. If you delete your offending media players, add this site to your list of installation sources and then re-install, all is well. This is what I did, and it worked great.

Here is the "recipe":
1) Go to YaST, Software, Change Source of Installation. Select Add, then select HTTP from the drop down list
2) Add "packman.iu-bremen.de" as the server, suse/9.3 as the directory
3) Finish out of Change Source of Installation

4) Go to YaST Install and Remove Software
5) Delete (uninstall) Kaffeine, xine-lib, xine-ui
6) Install the following (Search for each one by full or partial title and then select):
- w32codecs-all
- amarok-xine
- kaffeine
- kdemultimedia30-video-xine
- libxine1
- xine-ui
- xvid
- xvid4conf
- MPlayer
- Mplayerplug-in
7) Finish out of installing the software and then reboot

This fully resolved my issues with SuSE 9.3's multimedia limitations. I hope it helps you!

Oh thanks, I did exactly what you said it worked . I guess I was missing some package or something. Again, thanks a bunch.