Install VLC media player in Fedora 18/17/16/15/14/13/12/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 a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.

Features:

Simple, fast and powerful media player.
Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:

MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...

Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking.
Can do media conversion and streaming.
More info.

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:
Further required libraries and depends you have to install by yourself:

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"

That's it

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