Saturday 8 March 2014

Installing VLC player in fedora


Any video player needs codecs to play the videos on linux, Unfortunately default installation of fedora wont provide it...

First You Need to install a codec,
  1. Get Rpm Fusion,
    • Run this command
      su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'
  2. Get Livna
    • su -c "rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm"
  3. Get gstreamer codec
    • su -c 'yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-ffmpeg vlc'
  4. Optionally I Prefer Amarok music player, here is the command
    • su -c 'yum install amarok'
Thats It.... Vlc Should be listed under the Application Tab...