http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979024
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979024#c2
Daniel Longfield
(just a side note: VLC does not use gstreamer to play videos)
Totem's error message is very interesting - and scary the same.
Can you please paste the output of the following commands:
file /path/to/your/video.mkv (please don't just copy, but actually use the path to your mkv file)
gst-olay-1.0 /path/to/your/video.mkv (again, use the actual path to your video)
Since creating this bug report I have reinstalled openSUSE Tumbleweed and I am now using i3wm. I am currently using VLC with wine to watch any videos. I believe I have installed all the required codecs that are needed to play h264 videos. Here are the outputs of the commands you listed, I have replaced the actual file paths with "/path/to/video.mkv": daniel@localhost:~> file /path/to/video.mkv /path/to/video.mkv: Matroska data daniel@localhost:~> gst-olay-1.0 /path/to/video.mkv If 'gst-olay-1.0' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this: cnf gst-olay-1.0 Here is also the output from trying to play the video using MPV. daniel@localhost:~> mpv /path/to/video.mkv Playing: /path/to/video.mkv (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (aac) Subs --sid=1 --slang=eng (subrip) Failed to initialize a video decoder for codec 'h264'. Video: no video Failed to initialize an audio decoder for codec 'aac'. Audio: no audio No video or audio streams selected. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.