Restricted formats/12.1
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In openSUSE 12.1 all our codec handling will be done using One-Click-Install. This provides a simple wizard to guide you through everything, and you have to install absolutely nothing extra to be good to go!
Restricted Multimedia Formats (MP3, MPEG-4, etc.)
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To go through a simple wizard guiding you through the installation process of some additional multimedia codecs where necessary, simply click on one of the links below:
 | For the KDE Desktop Environment: 1-click installation Note: You might get a conflict dialog. Don't worry. Just select to install one or more packages with vendor change. |
| | For the KDE Desktop Environment: Command line installation Instead of using the 1-click you can install the codecs using a root terminal instead. Simply copy/paste the commands. Add the required software repositories: zypper addrepo -r http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/packman.repo zypper addrepo -r http://www.opensuse-guide.org/repo/12.1/libdvdcss.repo Install the packages: zypper install libxine1-codecs k3b-codecs ffmpeg lame gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg libdvdcss2 |
 | For the GNOME Desktop Environment: |
This will enable you to have support for almost any codec including MP3, WMA, WMV, encrypted DVDs and much more