oss 11.0 VLC not supporting mkv video

[Sergey Mkrtchyan]

Folks,
I notice the opensuse 11.0 release of VLC no longer plays mkv files. Are
there any codecs that need to be installed now or does one need to install
another player?
Thanks,
Vahe Avedissian

Barev Vahe ;-)

Install matroska codec from yast, after that Kaffeine worked for me.

Regards,

[Vahe Avedissian]

Subject: Re: [opensuse] oss 11.0 VLC not supporting mkv video
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:07 AM

Folks,
I notice the opensuse 11.0 release of VLC no longer

plays mkv files. Are

there any codecs that need to be installed now or does

one need to install

another player?
Thanks,
Vahe Avedissian

Barev Vahe ;-)
Install matroska codec from yast, after that Kaffeine
worked for me.
Regards,
--
Sergey Mkrtchyan,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo
--

Barev Sergey,

I checked that I had libmatroska installed and it was. VLC still will *not* play .mkv videos. I installed VLC on VB running XP and sure enough it played mkv files.

Any idea what else to check for? Is the opensuse 11.0 repository deliberately lobotomized?

Thanks,

Vahe

[Sunny]

Folks,
I notice the opensuse 11.0 release of VLC no longer plays mkv files. Are there any codecs that need to be installed now or does one need to
install another player?
Thanks,
Vahe Avedissian

There are 2 versions of VLC, from VideoLan repository, and from
packman. The one from VideoLan did not play matroska here as well, but
the other one, from packman was OK.

Please, report a bug with VideoLan for their build.

Also, you can always use mplayer to play almost everything :)

Cheers

[Vahe Avedissian]

----- Original Message ----
From: Sunny <***@gmail.com>
To: ***@opensuse.org
Sent: Monday, July 7, 2008 12:06:47 AM
Subject: Re: [opensuse] oss 11.0 VLC not supporting mkv video


There are 2 versions of VLC, from VideoLan repository, and from
packman. The one from VideoLan did not play matroska here as well, but
the other one, from packman was OK.

Please, report a bug with VideoLan for their build.

Also, you can always use mplayer to play almost everything :)

Cheers
--
Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

Hi Sunny,

I un-installed the VLC repository VLC and installed from packman and indeed it
now plays mkv files! Thanks for the tip!

Now, if I could only find where to file a bug with VideoLan...

Vahe

[Sunny]

Post by Vahe Avedissian
I un-installed the VLC repository VLC and installed from packman and indeed it
now plays mkv files! Thanks for the tip!
Now, if I could only find where to file a bug with VideoLan...

How to file a bug:
<http://wiki.videolan.org/Report_bugs>

Btw, you do not need to uninstall the repository, just change the
priority, so packman's packages are preffered.

Cheers