In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure of VLC media player on CentOS 8. For those of you who didn’t know, VLC (VideoLan) is a portable & and open-source multimedia player available for Linux like operating systems, 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 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. First of all, make sure that all packages are up to date.
sudo dnf update
Step 2. 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 3. Installing VLC on CentOS 8.
Now we install VLC by running the following command on the terminal:
sudo dnf install vlc
Step 4. Starting VLC Player on CentOS
Once successfully installed, run the following command from the Desktop terminal as a normal user to Launch the VLC player:
vlc
Congratulations! You have successfully installed VLC. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the VLC media player on CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official VLC website.