Comment # 2 on bug 1015927 from Dominique Leuenberger

(In reply to Andreas Stieger from comment #1)
> This may be intentional / required for legal reasons. Assign to maintainer
> to handle.

That's correct - 'out of the box' we can play (patent) free media codecs only,
like Ogg Theora, Vorbis, Matroska (and still many more)

For all the others, you should enable the VideoLAN repository:

> zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/SuSE/Leap_42.2/ VideoLAN
> zypper in vlc-codecs

This will ask for some vendor changes (some packages need to be replaced, e.g.
libavcodec)