Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Red Hat Linux Video Player Installtion

You can use VLC or mplayer both can play movies, mp3, dvd and so on. However, these packages are not part of default installation and not supported by RedHat. You need to install 3rd party repo such as RPMforge to install the package.

For 34 bit version i386:
wgethttp://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm For 64 bit version x86_64
wgethttp://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm Now, type the following command to install packages vlc, mplayer and xmms:

yum install vlc mplayer xmms xmms-mp3

Use vlc to dvd and movies
vlc file.avi

Use mplayer to view dvd, tv, radio etc
mplayer *.mp3
mplayer file.avi

Use xmms to play mp3
xmms &

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