In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of VLC media player on CentOS 8. 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 favourite audio and video files, it can play various audio & video formats such as MPEG, DivX, MOV, mp3, mp4, DVD, VCD, WMV and Quick time.
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 8.
Install VLC Media Player on CentOS 8
Step 1. The first step is to enable EPEL and RPM fusion repository.
dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarc
Step 2. Installing VLC on CentOS 8.
Install VLC by running the following command on the terminal:
dnf install vlc
Step 3. Starting VLC Player.
Run the following command from the Desktop terminal as normal user to Launch the VLC player:
vlc
Congratulations! 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 website.