Portal:Multimedia/Topics

Guides

To go through a simple wizard guiding you through the installation process of some additional multimedia codecs where necessary, see the relevant pages for each respective openSUSE version:

Version: 12.1

For openSUSE 12.1, see Restricted formats/12.1

Version: 11.4

For openSUSE 11.4, see Restricted formats/11.4

Version: 11.3

For openSUSE 11.3, see Restricted formats/11.3

Version: 11.2

For openSUSE 11.2, see Restricted formats/11.2

Version: Tumbleweed

For openSUSE Tumbleweed, see Restricted formats/Tumbleweed

Version: Evergreen 11.1

For Evergreen 11.1, see Restricted formats/11.1

Ogg

Ogg is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. It is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Being a container format, Ogg can embed audio and video in various formats, and usually Ogg is used with the following:

Audio

• Vorbis (lossy)- handles general audio data at mid- to high-level variable bitrates (~16-500 kbit/s/channel)
• FLAC (lossless) - handles archival and high fidelity audio data.

Video

• Theora - based upon On2's VP3, it is targeted at competing with MPEG-4 video (for example, encoded with DivX or Xvid), RealVideo, or Windows Media Video.

Software Freedom is important, please always use these when possible.