How to Play MPEG Movies on CentOS-5.2

CentOS-5.2 has no codec so that we cannot play any movie. So we must install third party packages to play back movie.

CentOS-5.2 includes totem, the GNOME media player. But today I selected VLC that can handle many formats of movies.

All of following steps should be done as a root user.

1. Add rpmforge repository onto your CentOS-5.2.

# rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Please refer to the DAG's FAQ website.

NOTE: Once you do above, you shouldn't do yum update! Some of rpmforge packages get mixed with your healthy CentOS-5.2 system.

2. Install VLC player.
Do only:

# yum install vlc

If you are asked to install additional packages, please select 'yes'.

3. Disable rpmforge repository.

Open and change enable section to '0':

# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

Then, the installation is completed. Please run the VLC player as:

$ vlc