Just installed Suse 10.0 on my IBM ThinkPad R50e. Sound is working fine,
but i am not able to play any video files in Kaffeine or in Totem player
or in XINE player. The version of Kaffeine player is 0.7.1 . Any help is
most appericiated..i went through famous Multimedia thread over here..But
with no luck i found nothing. At source forge i did search but its showing
me Kaffeine's 0.8.x BETA which need 3.2 KDE, and i guess SuSe 10.0 dont have
that KDE. I am a newbie anybody can help? I am switching linux from here
and there....Damn...I must learn how to get plug ins and install them.
In Mandriva eerything is given....Real tackle starts when a newbie installs
other distro's in which we dont get plug ins for multimedia. Waiting for
reply,

regard's,
Amey Abhyankar.

It sounds like you needs the win32codecs rpm. This codec set is available on the mPlayer website. There seems to be a Suse RPM for it HERE and there is a thread to get started with here on LQ, but the thread starter was unsuccessful. You can also add a repository to Yast or whatever Suse uses now, that includes the codecs. Good luck.

It's pretty old thread started by me I know. I was just reviewing my thread's. The problem is solved. How ever now I use OpenSuSe 10.2
& I had same problem as plug-in's are not preinstalled.

How to get Kaffeine, Totem to play all kind of videos is as follows :

- Connect your PC to internet via OpenSuSe 10.0/10.2
- In Run tab say "Yast or Yast2"
- Open "Yast" go to "Update Manager"
- Choose source from where You'll download updates ( commonly used source is "packmans" .
- Put the link and go
- It searches and shows available updates.
- From the list select plug-in's for audio ( Select all possible plug-ins for audio cat )
- And now start downloading it. After downloading is finished, it installed plug-ins

AND THATS IT !!!

Now you can play all types of avi,mpeg,divx movies without hassle's.


[ Note: If you dont have internet, you can visit packman's web site, manually download plug-ins, copy then in pen drive and install it by "./" command which is commonly used command to install programs in most linux distro's or read "readme" file it plug-in folder.]

Regards,
Amey.