How to install VLC media player in Fedora and centos.

VLC media player in Fedora and centos.

Install VLC media player in Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12 and on CentOS/other Distributions from VLC source code

Vlc media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is highly portable player for playing various audio and video formats, and this works with all the DVDs,VCDs. And various streaming protocols.

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To install VLC in any Fedora open Terminal and enter following commands:

su
rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum install vlc mozilla-vlc

To install VLC in CentOS/other Distro open Terminal and enter following commands:

su
yum install gcc dbus-glib-devel* lua-devel* libcddb
wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.0.5/vlc-2.0.5.tar.xz
tar -xf vlc-2.0.5.tar.xz && cd vlc-2.0.5
./configure –prefix=/opt/vlc
make
su -c "make install"

 Cheers!!!