Hi, Am 17.07.2015 um 14:23 schrieb Johannes Meixner:
I do have that thingy installed as gstreamer-fluendo-mp3-21-1.1.x86_64 but that does not work for what I like to do.
gstreamer-fluendo-mp3 plays MP3 (MPEG1 Layer 3) audio as the name implies indeed.
For me this does not work when I try it with what openSUSE provides.
as expected unfortunately.
Werner Flamme. you must install plain openSUSE without any third-party software, then you can tell what need to be done to get a H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video data stream decoded.
For Firefox you should have in addition gstreamer-plugins-libav This would be enough.
As far as I meanwhile understand the whole thing it would be a legal issue if it had worked to decode a H.264 video data stream with any software that is provided by openSUSE.
"Legal issue" is something non-defined. If openSUSE wouldn't be somehow related to SUSE which is again somehow related to the US there would be no legal issue most likely. Also for you as a openSUSE user in Germany there is no legal issue (IANAL) to use H.264 decoders.
It is clear that openSUSE cannot provide such software so that obviously this cannot work out of the box.
I'm not sure why _openSUSE_ cannot provide such software as long as SUSE has nothing to do with it. (I could imagine that this disconnect is unfortunately nothing easily accepted by court :-()
My primary intent was to show that there is no useful end-user information when an unexperienced user installs openSUSE without Adobe Flash Player and "just browses" the Internet.
If the argument that openSUSE "cannot" provide the software is valid then openSUSE also cannot communicate how to workaround this limitation I guess.
When the user hits web content that cannot be preocessed with software that openSUSE is allowed to provide, then the user does not get useful information what the issue is about and an unexperienced user is then lost.
Yes, thanks to software patents and the US the rest of the world has to suffer. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org