Enabling Multimedia in OpenSuse 10.1

Yesterday, I was pushed to reinstall my Suse 10.1 box since I couldn't login to my account after a reboot and I didn't have any idea how to handle that problem.



Reinstalling means that I have to dedicated my time to set up especially the Multimedia part of the box. I decided to install KDE as the default Window Manager with 2 user name "anom" and "remote". anom was the user I had used on the last working Suse. I had separated the partitions for / and /home so I didn't feel worried about my data.



After the installation complete, I tried to login to user anom but it failed. So I could make a conclusion that actually I wouldn't have o reinstall my box if I had had the idea to make a new user, because I can log in to user remote. Nothing need to be regret...



As before in Suse 10.0 or 10.1, I went to the next step that was to enable the multimedia so that I could play mp3 files, 3gp, and movie files. I didn't worry about that because I had the experience for about 4 times setting up in 4 computers. Practice makes perfect.



These are the steps :

1. Remove xine-lib, amarok-xine, amarok, kaffeine and package depended on xine-lib.
2. Get the following files : w32codecs and libxine from packman
   
   
3. Install them
4. Reinstall amarok-xine, kaffeine or xine
5. Finish

Now you can enjoy your mp3 files using Amarok, or xine/kaffeine.

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