The user is able to install VLC Media Player from the openSUSE Leap 42.2 (Beta
RC1) repositories, but not able to play media files.  Normally, a package such
as vlc-data or vlc-codecs is installed along with VLC to provide the necessary
codecs to play all formats.

This codecs package is missing from the openSUSE 42.2 repositories.  The VLC
Videolan repository contains the codecs package, as follows:

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zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/Leap_42.2/ VLC

zypper mr -r VLC

zypper se vlc

...
  | vlc-codecs                         | VLC: VideoLAN Client - Codec extens->
| package    
...

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However, an alternative install using the Videolan repository above produces
the following irreconcilable error:

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zypper in vlc

Problem: nothing provides libopencv_core.so.2.4()(64bit) needed by
vlc-noX-2.2.4-212.1.x86_64
 Solution 1: do not install vlc-2.2.4-212.1.x86_64
 Solution 2: break vlc-noX-2.2.4-212.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its
dependencies

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==> Reference also the following old openSUSE 12.2 issue: Bug 686966 - VLC
Repository missing in YaST community repositories 


This will be an important issue for many end users.  Seems like the easiest
thing to do is simply include the vlc-codecs package along with the openSUSE
Leap provided VLC application.