Cannot play anything with VLC on OpenSUSE?

Mplayer and Kaffeine and such work perfectly fine (which means codecs are properly installed)? Getting irritating and inexplicable errors like these?

main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `mpga’.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
and/or
main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `mpgv’.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

I have absolutely no idea why this happens, but apparently the VLC that comes with some common repos for OpenSUSE (I think I got this having installed from Packman!) is somewhat borked. Want a working VLC? Grab it from the Videolan repo. I installed that in desperation and all was suddenly right with the world.

(I half didn’t want to make this post since I can’t actually explain what the problem is and am too lazy to find out, but this solution needs some Google love, so here)