Where to find Totem Mplayer codecs

[tybuzz]

hello everybody. my problem is with OpenSuse 12.1 Totem. I can't seem to play any videos. I'm using Totem Movie Player 3.2.1 GStreamer 0.10.35.
It says that it doesn't have MPEG -1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder and XVID MPEG -4 decoder. Can anybody help me solve this problem. Thanks in advance.

[atreyu]

See this explanation of restricted formats on openSUSE's website:

http://en.opensuse.org/Restricted_formats

They offer some possible work arounds for getting MP3 playback going.

[tybuzz]

I did that and it clearly suggested that i may have to purchase the codecs for Totem. Well, I just went for the alternative, I installed VLC player instead and it works fine. So that means that this problem is solved. at least for me. thanks for the reply. i really appreciate it.

[atreyu]

I did that and it clearly suggested that i may have to purchase the codecs for Totem. Well, I just went for the alternative, I installed VLC player instead and it works fine. So that means that this problem is solved. at least for me. thanks for the reply. i really appreciate it.

Yeah, VLC rocks. I use it in both Windows and Linux, should have thought of mentioning that!

[tybuzz]

Yeah, VLC rocks. I use it in both Windows and Linux, should have thought of mentioning that!

i also have VLC on windows and linux and yeah it does rock simply because it works on both platform