Re: [opensuse-factory] VLC installation with codecs

On 2017-04-24 00:58, Juan Erbes wrote:

2017-04-23 19:32 GMT-03:00 Patrick Shanahan :

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* Juan Erbes [04-23-17 18:10]:

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And what happens if the user really can not play any video file with VLC (like my computer before the repo change), and it thinks wrong that the problem is libdvdcss2, because all the multimedia applications of Opensuse has no support for the codec h264?

you probably had mixed packages for vlc, packman and videolan

Two months ago, I made a clean install of Leap 42.2, and enabled the videolan and Packman repos as I made by many years before.

I probed different versions of VLC and all crashed, until the point to thinking that the problem was the amdgpu-pro driver, before I made the migration to Packman of the libraries and multimedia apps.

Again: you probably had mixed packages for vlc, packman and videolan.

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As mentioned before, by about 2 months I couldn't open a mp4 video file, like to play or edit them, and VLC crashed with any file, like an mp3 audio.

What is the reason that Opensuse does not support the h264 codec? (like Packman)

not "Opensuse" but openSUSE which has a presence in the USA and must therefore adhere to USA patient law which restricts decoding h264.

it is called drm, digital rights management. --

I am an advocate of free software and Opensuse, but I really find it embarrassing when in one of the computers with Opensuse can not play a mp4 video recorded with the cell phone.

I live in Argentina, and here does not apply the USA patents laws which restricts decoding h264.

But the USA law does apply to openSUSE, no matter where /you/ live.

Many years ago, in the Debian distro they was a repo called "NON-US", to by pass this type of law restrictions.

Well, packman does the same role for openSUSE. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)