Timidity is a cross-platform MIDI-to-WAV converter and player. It handles karaoke files,
too, displaying the words so you can sing while it plays.
This leaves many users out in the cold, but thanks to others in the community, it is not
especially hard to get support for proprietary and semi-proprietary media formats in
openSUSE Linux. You even get pretty good Windows Media support in the bargain.
To turn your openSUSE machine into a fully functional multimedia player, follow these
steps:
1. Go to http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/Packman and select an
appropriate mirror for the Packman software repository. This source has assorted
multimedia-related packages that are not crippled.
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2. Open YaST and go to Installation Sources. Click Add, and the Media Type screen
appears. Choose Specify URL, click Next, and paste the URL for your mirror. Click
Finish to complete adding the Packman repository.
3. Go to Software Management and install these packages (if they don??™t appear in the
search box, check that Packman has been added): w32codec-all, ffmpeg, libxine1,
and libdvdcss.
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