It’s really suck to read hell lot of documentation about providing the multimedia support in OpenSuse.
Follow the following steps to get the full multimedia support in your OpenSuse-10.2
1) Go to http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/index.jsp (or from packman site –> http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.2/) or any other rpm site (http://rpm.pbone.net/)and download following package for OpenSuse 10.2
libxine1
xine-ui
libdvdcss –> DVD support
w32codec –> Windows Media Video and Quicktime support
2) Do the installation of these packages (You need to be root)
# rpm -Uvh libxine1* xine-ui* libdvdcss* w32codec*
3) Creating a symbolic link to your device is recommended
# ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd
# hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom
All Done, Now fire up xine and enjoy the multimedia support
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