Comment # 3 on bug 1182260 from Dominique Leuenberger

Not a bug - but a 'feature' (sadly)

We can't legally distribute patented codecs

Multimedia codecs for patent-encumbered files need to be installed from 3rd
party repos

https://www.opensuse-community.org/

For VLC, I'd propose:
  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html

The attached video is encoded in H264-MPEG-4-AVC (part10) (avc1)

(quick install routing:
> su -
> zypper ar https://download.videolan.org/SuSE/Tumbleweed VLC
> zypper dup --from VLC --allow-vendor-change