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For legal reasons this version of xine has limited functionality. Here is
a list of what has been disabled:

AC3 and AC4.1 sound decoding. Probably patented. Maybe legal if it is not labeled as XX-Y.
ASF parsing. Patented.
Closed Captioning Decoder (EIA-608). Probably patented.
GSM 610 decoding. Patented.
MPEG-4 (FFMPEG) codecs. Patented.
MS Video-1. Used in AVI and ASF. AVI is okay, ASF is not.
Sorenson video codec. Reverse engineering, no legal expertise.
Direct Hardware Access. Uncertain legal status.

Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder. No legal expertise.
Interplay DPCM Audio Decoder. No legal expertise.
Interplay MVE File Video Decoder. No legal expertise.
NES Music File Format. No legal expertise.
Origin's Wing Commander III MVE format. No legal expertise.
SPU DVD subtitles. No legal expertise.

CSS decoding needs extra library (libdvdcss), which is not part of SuSE Linux

Advanced users can build an RPM package and install also the additional
"libxine1-codecs" rpm, which contains all protected codecs.

See also
http://www.opensuse.org/XINE#Legal_Matters