# Multimedia for SLED 12 SP1 **URL:** \ **Category:** SLED Applications\ **Created:** [June 30, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/multimedia-for-sled-12-sp1/28368 "2016-06-30T16:18:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![holden87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@holden87](https://forums.suse.com/u/holden87)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/multimedia-for-sled-12-sp1/28368/1 "2016-06-30T16:18:31Z")
Hi, I’m looking for a stable distro, and I’ve been an openSUSE user for long, but been having more and more issues. I’ve been thinking about purchasing SLED for my laptop I use for work, but I would also like to have additional codecs available, like i did from packman on openSUSE. Is there any way to obtain additional multimedia (vlc, codecs et al.) Kind regards, ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/multimedia-for-sled-12-sp1/28368/2 "2016-06-30T16:35:58Z")
Hi and welcome to the SUSE forum 😉 I use fluendo codecs and videolan repo for VLC/libdvdcss2, but just having fluendo codec bundle should suffice. What are you multimedia requirements? There is a SLE repo on packman, but at present they are trying to clean things up (moves too far ahead in the releases) to stabilize builds. ---
**Author:** ![holden87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@holden87](https://forums.suse.com/u/holden87)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/multimedia-for-sled-12-sp1/28368/3 "2016-06-30T17:18:52Z")
[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;33289]Hi and welcome to the SUSE forum 😉 I use fluendo codecs and videolan repo for VLC/libdvdcss2, but just having fluendo codec bundle should suffice. What are you multimedia requirements? There is a SLE repo on packman, but at present they are trying to clean things up (moves too far ahead in the releases) to stabilize builds.[/QUOTE] Hi Malcolm, good to see you here! You’ve been a help over the past couple of years on openSUSE too. My multimedia requirements are audio (mp3, mp4 and flac)/video codecs, vlc, flash for streaming. That’s about it. So there shouldn’t be a problem if I download and install from Packman? And which repo do you use for fluendo and vlc? Kind regards, ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/multimedia-for-sled-12-sp1/28368/4 "2016-06-30T17:50:40Z")
[QUOTE=holden87;33292]Hi Malcolm, good to see you here! You’ve been a help over the past couple of years on openSUSE too. My multimedia requirements are audio (mp3, mp4 and flac)/video codecs, vlc, flash for streaming. That’s about it. So there shouldn’t be a problem if I download and install from Packman? And which repo do you use for fluendo and vlc? Kind regards,[/QUOTE] Hi Flash, well if I need it I just download the version from adobe and extract the libflashplayer.so and pop that into /usr/lib64/browser-plugins, else I resist it as much as possible… Fluendo codecs are purchased from their website… covers all the general codecs you listed. For vlc I use [https://download.videolan.org/SuSE/SLE12](https://download.videolan.org/SuSE/SLE12) The packman repo, to be honest until they get some better version control, just add the videolan one to start with… ---
**Author:** ![holden87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@holden87](https://forums.suse.com/u/holden87)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/multimedia-for-sled-12-sp1/28368/5 "2016-07-01T08:16:31Z")
[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;33293]Hi Flash, well if I need it I just download the version from adobe and extract the libflashplayer.so and pop that into /usr/lib64/browser-plugins, else I resist it as much as possible… Fluendo codecs are purchased from their website… covers all the general codecs you listed. For vlc I use [https://download.videolan.org/SuSE/SLE12](https://download.videolan.org/SuSE/SLE12) The packman repo, to be honest until they get some better version control, just add the videolan one to start with…[/QUOTE] Oh great, I never knew you can purchase codecs this way, always thought they have to be bundled with the system, that being either mac or win. So basically i have to purchase the codec pack, and install the rpm. And this rpm works with sled 12? ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/multimedia-for-sled-12-sp1/28368/6 "2016-07-01T16:32:19Z")
> [@](#): > > On Fri 01 Jul 2016 05:24:01 AM CDT, holden87 wrote: > > malcolmlewis;33293 Wrote:[color=blue] > > > Hi > > Flash, well if I need it I just download the version from adobe and > > extract the libflashplayer.so and pop that into > > /usr/lib64/browser-plugins, else I resist it as much as possible… > > > > Fluendo codecs are purchased from their website… covers all the > > general codecs you listed. > > > > For vlc I use [https://download.videolan.org/SuSE/SLE12](https://download.videolan.org/SuSE/SLE12) > > > > The packman repo, to be honest until they get some better version > > control, just add the videolan one to start with…[/color] > > Oh great, I never knew you can purchase codecs this way, always thought > they have to be bundled with the system, that being either mac or win. > So basically i have to purchase the codec pack, and install the rpm. And > this rpm works with sled 12? Hi Yes, no issues here, install one rpm and away you go… – Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE Leap 42.1|GNOME 3.16.2|4.1.26-21-default If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, please show your appreciation and click on the star below… Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![yeoheric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yeoheric](https://forums.suse.com/u/yeoheric)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/multimedia-for-sled-12-sp1/28368/7 "2016-08-04T07:12:36Z")
Hello, Maybe this will help? I managed to get it running on my then SLED 12 SP1 notebook [https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/additional-multimedia-codec-support-sled-12/](https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/additional-multimedia-codec-support-sled-12/) [QUOTE=holden87;33288]Hi, I’m looking for a stable distro, and I’ve been an openSUSE user for long, but been having more and more issues. I’ve been thinking about purchasing SLED for my laptop I use for work, but I would also like to have additional codecs available, like i did from packman on openSUSE. Is there any way to obtain additional multimedia (vlc, codecs et al.) Kind regards,[/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Andreas1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Andreas1](https://forums.suse.com/u/Andreas1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/multimedia-for-sled-12-sp1/28368/8 "2016-08-18T00:06:03Z")
To play a MP3 Audio file from a web page (with Firefox ESR 45@SLED12SP1): you need ONEPLAY Codec Pack (from Fluendo) AND a special configuration in Firefox ESR 45: 1.) Please go to about:config 2.) and find media.gstreamer.enable-blacklist 3.) Set this to false Test pages: [http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/](http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/) (=\> FLAC files aren’t supported by Firefox ESR 45@SLED12SP1) [http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html](http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html)