How to Play Videos, Music in Fedora : Install VLC

If you are frustrated with the available media players in Fedora, that won’t play any music or video, not even an MP3 file, then don’t worry, simply follow few steps to install VLC media player on your Fedora PC or Laptop.

Btw, VLC is the most popular media player for laptops and is also supported on linux.

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Installing VLC in Fedora 9, Fedora 10 and Fedora 11

Open Terminal (Applications > Sytem Tools > Terminal). Type in these commands.

    $> su -
    #> rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
    #> yum install vlc
    #> yum install mozilla-vlc (optional)

Use these commands to install VLC Player in your Fedora PC directly from the command base, the Terminal. (Downloads around 44MB at max. speed). Leave comments to ask or suggest.

If you are also using windows check Best Free Music Players to Get High Quality Sound in Laptops and also how to Increase Laptop Volume, Sound Quality in Speakers.

Alternative Way of Playing Videos & Movies in Fedora

Configuring Fedora 8 to play videos is one of the toughest task. This is because Redhat & Fedora are designed not for entertainment and in

respect of multimedia license and copyright issues.

Here’s a list of task I performed to enable my laptop to play MPEG, AVI,FLV and WMV files.

1. install repositories of livna

#wget http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm

#rpm -ivh livna-release-8.rpm

2. install pulseaudio-libs

-due to dependency problem during mplayer installation

-download and install pulseaudio-libs-0.9.8-5.fc8.i386.rpm from

http://rpm.pbone.org

3. install lzo and libdvdnav-4 required by mplayer

download and install these packages

-lzo-2.02-3.fc8.i386.rpm

-libdvdnav-4.1.2-2.fc8.i386.rpm

4. install mplayer (multimedia player) package

yum install mplayer

5. install mplayer gui application and related codec

yum install gnome-mplayer

yum install mencoder

Also Read : Top Ten Most Popular Linux Distributions

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