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2008/08/23

How to Play MPEG Movies on CentOS-5.2

Linux Multimedia HacksCentOS-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
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3 件のコメント:

  1. Vivek Naik2009/04/09 21:38

    Hi,
    In the end I got

    "warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897


    GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')"

    Could you please help me?

    Thanks in advance :)

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  2. moririn-japan2009/04/11 9:50

    I guess you are using a proxy server...

    I think you can find the appropriate answer googling the problem because there are many people having the same problem. And the wrong proxy setting seems to cause your problem.

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  3. Karim Boghni2010/12/08 22:58

    Thanks, Friend

    Karim in Boghni

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