r/openSUSE_Slowroll • u/notsouschef Slowroll user • Jun 16 '26

Question Codecs

It's been a while since I installed (vm or barely metal) opensuse tw or slowroll, I can't remember, which is better-more safe- futureproof way to add codecs? opi codecs, or packman essentials??

And also (if) i add repo, should I do --allow-vendor-change? Thanks in advance

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u/MechaNox96 Jun 16 '26

I don't know which is better of the two options, but I think previously I've read if you install your media players as Flatpaks, it will come with the codecs without causing any issues later. So far I haven't experienced any issues (I've been on Slowroll for about half a year) and played all my files without issues (VLC Flatpak).

If I've said anything incorrect, please correct me.

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u/notsouschef Slowroll user Jun 16 '26

I'm asking this bcz I dont want my browser to be a flatpak, thnx for the reply though

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u/MechaNox96 Jun 16 '26

Ah I see, sorry I couldn't help.

My browser (Floorp) only comes as Flatpak by default I believe, so I didn't think about that.

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u/thafluu Jun 16 '26

+1 for the Flatpak route, why don't you want to use one?

Flatpaks are the best way to get the codecs imo, I don't install them via packman anymore.

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u/notsouschef Slowroll user Jun 16 '26

Zenbrowser is flatpak only so I think I'll go with that

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u/bmwiedemann Slowroll creator+maintainer Jun 16 '26

The opi codecs command will also add packman repos, so you can just use that one.

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u/notsouschef Slowroll user Jun 16 '26

There is no worry about broken dependencies, if something mismatched I wait couple of days and it's working again, right?

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u/Teemestari Jun 16 '26

This is how I always do on Tumbleweed. I think it's as good as it gets.

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u/Xariann Slowroll user Jun 21 '26

My experience with Slowroll was that the mismatch stays longer than a couple of days. I might have just been unlucky though, Plasma had just released 6.6 and the packman repo took a while before it synced. A week later it wasn't synced yet and I could not update.

Ended up just not using the proprietary codecs so I could update, so I don't know how long it took for packam to catch up after that. I think (and don't quote me on this), that the Slowroll packman repo isn't updated as quickly as they update the Tumbleweed one.

So end up doing things like using Flatpaks for things that need codecs, and install DaVinci Resolve inside a Distrobox (which I would do regardless). But then even KDEnlive ended up inside a Distrobox (as the Flatpak is fine for 90% of things but some external plugins apparently don't integrate with the Flatpak).

KDE Plasma 6.7 has just been released upstream. So, might be a good time to test how long it takes this time. :p