VideoLAN Client (VLC)

by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal — last modified Jan 30, 2008 08:53 PM

— filed under: Multimedia Solutions

VideoLAN Client is a powerful open source media player. VLC will play all the most common audio and video formats, as well as most of the not so common ones. Due to legal issues with some of these non-free formats, VLC is not included in Fedora itself. However, you can get VLC from third party repository rpm.livna.org.

Requirements

This assumes you have a working Fedora installation and that you have configured yum to use rpm.livna.org

Doing the work

Installing VLC

VLC is not incuded in Fedora, to use VLC you first have to install it:

Open a terminal
Enter:
```
su -c 'yum install vlc'
```
VLC can be found in the menu, under "Sound & Video"

Troubleshooting

If VLC doesn't play a certain media file, check if the media type is supported in the VLC feature list

More Information

Disclaimer

Users should be aware of the legal limitations of the mp3 format and other non-free media formats. Please do read the legal issues page.

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net.

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