Proprietary Multimedia Support in

Support for proprietary formats and codecs is not shipped out-of-the box in openSUSE. Please follow the links below for more information on obtaining the necessary software required to play proprietary multimedia content.

  • Fluendo Webshop
    Fluendo provides high quality codecs for the GStreamer multimedia framework.
  • Community Information
    Alternate codecs are available by following community instructions, but may require a license.

Further Information

For more information about why some formats and codecs are restricted and why they don't ship out-of-the-box on openSUSE, please read about Restricted Formats.

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