Wednesday, 11 November 2015

How To Install VLC On CentOS 6/7




How To Install VLC On CentOS 6/7

VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a portable, free and open-source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project. VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and to transcode multimedia files.

The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC’s codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers and its own protocols implementations. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux and OS X by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library.

For EL7:
Install  EPEL   from   http://www.unixmen.com/install-epel-repository-centos-rhel-7/
rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-1.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

For EL6:
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/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

Now:
yum update
yum  install vlc

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I ve downloaded VLC on my CentOS 6.
When I play a video by double clicking on finder, or using the vlc command in terminal, it shows a black screen. Sound works fine though.
Do you have any idea what could cause this problem?
3 Answers


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Actually I solved with options, not code.
Tools --> preferences --> Video and uncheck Accelerated video output(Overlay).
:D So simple;;



My VLC version is 2.0.5 just installed with CentOS6.4. My problem was no sound and or picture.

To get sound I did as advised:
  1. Tools > Preferences > Video
  2. Uncheck Accelerated video output (Overlay).
To get video:
  1. Tools > Preferences > Video
  2. Change video output to X11 video output (XCB).


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