Hi all

If you haven't already read it then I can recommend the following site which goes into the advantages and disadvantages of various hardware and software solutions, and for various main distributions.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DVD-Playback-HOWTO/index.html

I shall be studying this one intensely.

273chris

The packages on this site (except for real player 9 rpms) worked for me with SuSE 9.3 Pro.

I followed your directions closely VinBob, but unfortunately Suse 9.3 still fails at multimedia sound. The most I can get Suse to do is to play a music CD. It does play good music, but playing a CD is all it can do. Your directions were well written and easy to understand, but still no luck with Suse. Thanks for the help anyway.

By multimedia sound, do you mean MP3? If so and you loaded the SuSE multimedia pack #1, run amaroK or another MP3 player.

what Vinbob is or was it Vimbob is suggesting is sort of the traditional way many susers have enabled support for commercial dvd watching. I think there is even a tutorial at packmans llinks 2 linux

Bingo! worked like a charm, thanks.

that is really helpfull, I will surely try it

I managed to get mplayer work with just downloading its RPM and another codec which I can't remmeber

but adding packman to the sources of installation would be surely very very helpfull

vinbob is absolutely right. I did the same thing, only with the ftp server. Works perfect.

If you don't want to add packman to sources of installation (but it's actually better cuz packman has LOTS of good apps) just go to their website:

http://packman.links2linux.org/

go to multimedia if you want to install players and codecs etc.

Hope it helps!



svinka

Unfortuneately no luck thus far following vinbobs instructions, this is my first day on SUSe and getting a little confused.

I have installed the server and pressed up no probs there, then I want to install remove software and attempted to remove mplayer but I typed in mplayer pressed search it didn't have it to uninstall or install, oh well try kaffeine I found it uninstalled and attempted to reinstall, it first off wants to install from CD even with server selected, so I went back and disabled CD but now it cannot find kaffeine at all?

Oh and no can't listen to a CD either it is listed as cdrecorder in fstab so want play cd's. Frustrated at the moment oh well time for breakfast maybe that will help

flebber, can you fill us in more about your problem? I mean, are you sure that the PACKMAN source of installation is enabled? Because it's strange, if there were no errors when you added the source, it should be the one that the list is gathered from. And mplayer is definately there.
I only had trouble instaling KMplayer (stupid dependancies), guess i'll have to compile it.


Good luck!

svinka


P.S. I believe uninstalling and reinstalling just Kaffeine is not enough. I think you have to reinstall the whole xine engine(particulary xine-libs). Correct me if I'm wrong.

By the way...

If you also add the 'guru' source you can pick up the latest KMplayer from Yast too..
In the Yast source list I usually have the Guru source just under the Packman source.

Guru Yast source;

Protocol - HTTP
Server Name - ftp.gwdg.de
Directory on Server - pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/9.3

Thx, vinbob! It is a good source. I suggest everyone, who wants good multimedia playback having these two sources (packman and guru).


svinka

go here http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
install apt and synaptic ,set it up
get all media packages - i.e. search for codecs ,players ,dvd ,etc ...
play anything

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Originally posted by vinbob
SuSE 9.3 is easily fixed for full multimedia support, here's an easy n00bified way of doing it..


Do an online update from Yast and install the Multimedia Packs...

Next open up Yast and in the software section open 'Change Source of Installation'.
Add the Packman Yast source;
Protocol - HTTP
Server Name - packman.iu-bremen.de
Directory on Server - suse/9.3

once that's added click on the up button so packman is at the top.
...then OK & Finish


Now in Yast open 'Install & Remove Software' and use the package manager to uninstall mplayer, kaffeine, xine-ui and libxine1.
Then reinstall those packages from the packman source (Yast will prompt you to accept the W32codecs to go with Mplayer).
This will get everything working with all codecs you'll need.

Lastly to get DVD video playback working install 'libdvdcss'.
Just download this RPM http://download.videolan.org/pub/lib...2.8-1.i386.rpm and install with Yast (You can just launch the RPM from Konqueror and click on 'Install with Yast').

Bosh..
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I thought this was such a good nugget of information from vinbob that I would bring it to the forefront again. I'm now running Suse 10 so the directory on packman is now suse/10.0. Everything worked out fine using the same directions along with the new directory.