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How To Install VLC Media Player on CentOS 7

r00t May 23, 2015

In this tutorial we will show you how to install and configuration of VLC media player on your CentOS 7 server. For those of you who didn’t know, VLC (VideoLan) is a portable & an open source multimedia player available for like Linux like operating system, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and android. VLC plays our favorite audio and video files, it can play various audio & video formats such as mpeg, divx, mov, mp3, mp4, dvd, vcd, wmv and quicktime.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation VLC media player on CentOS 7.

Install VLC Media Player on CentOS 7

Step 1. First, you need to enable EPEL repository on your system.

1 2	wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-9.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh epel-release-7-9.noarch.rpm

Step 2. Install VLC using YUM.

1 2	yum update yum install vlc vlc

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed VLC. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing VLC media player on CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official VLC media player web site.

1. Amarok

Amarok is a cross-platform open source software written in C++ (Qt) and released under GNU Public License.

Originally started by Mark Kretschmann as an effort to improve xmms , this software was initially named as amaroK after name of wolf and later changed to Amarok.

It can play media files in various formats but not limited to: FLAC, Ogg, Mp3, AAC, Musepack etc. Apart from playing offline collection, it can stream online music integrating with various online services like: Magnatune, Jamendo, MP3tunes, Last.fm and Shoutcast.

Amarok provides apart from basic services, few advanced features like: fetching, transferring music to or from digital music players, moodbar support, and dynamic playlist support etc.

Install Amarok

Amarok can be easily installed by using apt-get or yum package manager as shown:

# apt-get install amarok [On Debian based systems] 
# yum install amarok  [On RedHat based systems]
# dnf install amarok  [On Fedora 22+ versions]

Preview: Amarok Player

2. Clementine

Released in February 2010, Clementine is also a cross-platform software which aimed to solve criticism of many people against the transition of Amarok from version 1.4 to 2.

It is a port of Amarok version 1.4 to Qt4 and Gstreamer multimedia framework. It is also written in C++ (Qt) framework released under GNU General Public License.

With features almost same as of Amarok, it provides few extra functionalities like: Remote Control using Android device, Wii Remote, MPRIS or command-line interface.

Install Clementine

Clementine can be easily installed by using apt-get or yum package manager as shown:

# apt-get install clementine         [On Debian based systems] 
# yum install clementine  [On RedHat based systems]
# dnf install clementine  [On Fedora 22+ versions]

Clementine Music Player

3. Tomahawk

Tomahawk is cross-platform open source music player released in March 2011. It is also written entirely in C++ (Qt) and released under GNU General Public License.

Tomahawk is a light-weight software and focuses on aggregation of music from all the sources including local, network and streaming services. Talking of UI, it has iTunes like interface.

Also, it provides access to various music services like: Spotify, Youtube, Jamendo, Grooveshark etc through various externally downloadable plug-ins. Like above music players, it also offers a basic feature-set.

Install Tomahawk

# apt-get install tomahawk [On Debian based systems] 
# yum install tomahawk  [On RedHat based systems]
# dnf install tomahawk  [On Fedora 22+ versions]

Tomahawk Music Player

Install EPEL and Nux Dextop Repositories on RHEL/CentOS

First, install Epel and Nux Dextop repository for your Linux OS distribution using following links. Please select and install it according to your Linux supported system versions.

For RHEL/CentOS 7

# rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

For RHEL/CentOS 6

------------------ On 32-Bit Systems ------------------
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/i386/nux-dextop-release-0-3.el6.nux.noarch.rpm
------------------ On 64-Bit Systems ------------------
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

Installing RPMFusion Repository on Fedora

Under Fedora distributions, the RPMFusion repository comes as pre-installed, if not you can follow below commands install and enable it as shown:

For Fedora 24-20

# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm 
# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Check the Availability of VLC in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

Once you’ve all the repositories installed on your system, do the following command to check the availability of VLC player.

# yum info vlc
# dnf info vlc         [On Fedora 23+ releases]

Sample Output :

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
* epel: kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id
* extras: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
* nux-dextop: li.nux.ro
* remi-safe: remi.check-update.co.uk
* rpmforge: kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id
* updates: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
Available Packages
Name        : vlc
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.2.1
Release     : 6.el7.nux
Size        : 1.5 M
Repo        : nux-dextop/x86_64
Summary     : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and
: server
URL         : http://www.videolan.org
License     : GPLv2+
Description : VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and
: multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video
: formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming
: protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to
: stream in uni-cast or multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

Installing VLC Player in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

As you see the VLC player is available, so install it by running the following command on the terminal.

# yum install vlc
# dnf install vlc       [On Fedora 23+ releases]

Starting VLC Player in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

Run the following command from the Desktop terminal as normal user to Launch the VLC player. (Note : VLC is not supposed to be run as root user).

$ vlc