Written on July 3, 2011 at 6:54 pm by

How to install VLC Media Player for Fedora 15

Filed under Fedora, Fedora 15 {7 comments}

After installing Fedora 15,one of the first things to do is Installing a good media player i.e. VLC Media player.It is free open source media player written by VideoLan Project.VLC Media Player is cross platform too,which means it has versions for almost all OS.You may also say it as portable media player or encoder or streamer which supports many audio and video codecs and different file formats.It plays almost all video and audio files.VLC Media player has a good share in media player industry.By default Fedora 15 has Movie Player which many users don´t like or many users uses more than one Media Player.Newbie or new users who just switched to fedora 15 may find it difficult in installing VLC media player,but it is not that much difficult as they think.Just follow these instructions to install VLC.

Install VLC Media Player
#1..First you need to configure RPM Fusion Repos so click here to download (After download right click and install this file)or Open the Treminal and issue the following command to root login and next command to install RPM Fusion Repos

 $ su - 

 #> rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release
 -stable.noarch.rpm

#2…Now Issue this command to install VLC Media Player

 #> yum install vlc

VLC Media Player is installed you can now access it from Applications.

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  • mahendra nath

    hi ,i followed all ur steps and sucessfullly installed vlc on my fedora15 but it was not running under root account and the same problem i am getting for google chrome
    i want to run those under root account please help me

    thanks in advance

  • Pradip

    Great!

  • kk

    thanks buddy thanks a lot!!

  • http://doug@dehelbling.com DougUnit12

    Great instructions. Worked like a charm. Suggestion: make sure that folks running the RPM command realize that that long string is just one big thing: rpm . The screen wrap on lower resolution monitors mike make some think it is multiple args.

    Re: running as root … if it hurts when you do that, STOP DOING THAT! :-) These are the instructions that pop up when you try to run VLC as root:

    VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
    If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
    you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and
    cannot be run by non-trusted users first).

    To run vlc-wrapper, try this command as root):

    SUDO_UID= vlc-wrapper

    It works on my F15 machine.

    TY again for the nice write-up.

  • http://doug@dehelbling.com DougUnit12

    Sorry, the lame use of Greater and Lesser signs I put in the previous reply ruined the reply. The suggested way to run vlc-wrapper to use vlc from a root account:

    SUDO_UID=your_uid vlc-wrapper

    You can get your uid from a bash shell this way:

    set | grep UID

    It will probably give you multiple matches, like this:

    [dehelbling@corner13 software]$ set | grep UID
    EUID=500
    KDE_SESSION_UID=500
    UID=500

    If you have a single user system with only you as a user, your non-root UID will probably be something like “500″ as in the example above.

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  • Srinibt

    really cool instructions.. thanks! It worked straight forward..

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