How Install VLC Media Player in RHEL/CentOS 7/6 and Fedora 23-20

VLC Media Player in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a portable, free and open-source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems as also mobile platforms as Android, iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. VLC is also available on App stores such as Apple's App Store.

VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and to transcode multimedia files.

The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. The libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project provides many of VLC's codecs, but the player mainly uses its own muxers, and demuxers. It also has its own protocol implementations. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux and OS X by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library

Install EPEL and Nux Dextop Repositories on RHEL/CentOS

Install Epel and Nux Dextop repository for your Linux OS distribution using following links. 

For RHEL/CentOS 7

# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

For RHEL/CentOS 6

------------------ On 32-Bit Systems ------------------
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/i386/nux-dextop-release-0-3.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

------------------ On 64-Bit Systems ------------------
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

# rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

Installing RPMFusion Repository on Fedora

The RPMFusion repository comes as pre-installed, if not you can follow below commands install and enable it as shown:

For Fedora 23-20

# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm 

# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Once you’ve all the repositories installed on your system, Now check vlc avalable or not through bellow command line

# yum info vlc
# dnf info vlc         [On Fedora 23+ releases]



Sample Output : - 

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
 * epel: kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id
 * extras: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
 * nux-dextop: li.nux.ro
 * remi-safe: remi.check-update.co.uk
 * rpmforge: kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id
 * updates: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
Available Packages
Name        : vlc
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.2.1
Release     : 6.el7.nux
Size        : 1.5 M
Repo        : nux-dextop/x86_64
Summary     : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and
            : server
URL         : http://www.videolan.org
License     : GPLv2+
Description : VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and
            : multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video
            : formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming
            : protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to
            : stream in uni-cast or multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

Now install it by running the following command on the terminal.

# yum install vlc
# dnf install vlc       [On Fedora 23+ releases]

Starting VLC Player in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

Run the following command from the Desktop terminal as normal user to Launch the VLC player. (Note : VLC is not supposed to be run as root user).

$ vlc

 Update or Upgrade VLC player to latest stable version.Run the following command

# yum update vlc
# dnf update vlc      [On Fedora 23+ releases]

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