You can choose between several movie players shipped with your openSUSE. Kaffeine, for example, can be run with several back-ends, such as Xine and MPlayer.
To start Kaffeine, press Alt+F2 and enter kaffeine.
The formats you can view with Kaffeine depends on the back-end (by default, Xine is used). Xine interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available. For more information, refer to http://www.xine-project.org/.
In case the format is not supported by the player's engine, openSUSE offers to search for a suitable codec which you can then install with YaST.
Kaffeine can also play multimedia streamed over the Internet, and can be used as a plug-in for Konqueror. It provides the usual options for playing files in full screen mode, navigating through files, and more. You can also take a snapshot of the video and save it as an image.
KDE 4 also ships with Dragon Player, included in the
dragonplayer
) package.
Dragon Player uses the Phonon, which is a multimedia API that connects to
any of several multimedia frameworks. If Dragon Player is installed,
start it by pressing Alt+F2 and entering dragon.
For more information on using Dragon Player, refer to the online help.