Tumbleweed & 264

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Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format "h264"
(H264-4 AVC (part 10))

x264
libopenh264-161
libx264-160
libx264-devel
opewnh264-devel

are installed

[Malcolm]

Hi
Is the vlc-codecs package installed, assuming the rest mis installed
from Packman....

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On 7/3/22 22:09, Malcolm wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 21:54:22 -0400
> bad sector <forgetski@postit_INVALID_.gov> wrote:
>
>>
>> Codec not supported:
>> VLC could not decode the format "h264"
>> (H264-4 AVC (part 10))
>>
>> x264
>> libopenh264-161
>> libx264-160
>> libx264-devel
>> opewnh264-devel
>>
>> are installed
>>
> Hi
> Is the vlc-codecs package installed, assuming the rest mis installed
> from Packman....

No it isn't, but neither is it installed in my Leap-15.3
where VLC does not have this problem,

If I try to install it in TW, Yast responds with

"the to be installed vlc-codecs-3.0.17.4-5.6.x86_64
requires libavcodec58_134(unrestricted), but this
requirement cannot be provided"

It then proposes 5 OpenSuse packages to be replaced
by versions from packman (repos shown at bottom).

https://imgur.com/wb212B5.png

I aborted as I don't like ambiguities, the packman
essentials repo is listed as a non-installable provider,
what is a non-installable-provider?

[Malcolm]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2022 07:12:07 -0400

Hi
See
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/570959-H264-MPRG-4-AVG-(part10)-MISSING

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[Andrew]

If you look at the OpenSUSE Audio documentation you will see that you
are supposed to do exactly that - replace versions from other
repositories with versions from packman if they are available.
Yast -> Software Management -> Repositories ; click on "packman" in the
left column, and then "Switch system packages to the versions in this
repository (packman)".

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On 7/4/22 09:18, Andrew wrote:
> OpenSUSE Audio

https://doc.opensuse.org/

has docs for Leap only

[bad sector]

That's what I used to do but within the last year I ran into trouble with zypper in some way related to that. Then there was also discussion here and on the mail-list that zypper knows what to do and we should NOT mix packman into the formula. So just now I reverted once again to the Yast Packman_Essentials repo directive and set "Switch system packages to the version in this repository" (but it keeps timing out this afternoon). Are we to do the same with both packman repos?

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On 7/4/22 17:01, bad sector wrote:

>> Hi
>> See
>> https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/570959-H264-MPRG-4-AVG-(part10)-MISSING

>
> That's what I used to do but within the last year I ran into trouble with zypper in some way related to that. Then there was also discussion here and on the mail-list that zypper knows what to do and we should NOT mix packman into the formula. So just now I reverted once again to the Yast Packman_Essentials repo directive and set "Switch system packages to the version in this repository" (but it keeps timing out this afternoon). Are we to do the same with both packman repos?

The timeout BTW was on account of two 32bit packages
being unavailable and it's the Nth time that this
sort of crap comes up so I got ticked off and deleted
them and every package that depends on them. Then I
deleted every other 32bit package (this time no depenency
complaints) and tabooed the lot of them. The reversion
to Packman_Essentials at least is complete and VLC
works the way it should.