On 09/30/2014 03:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 9/29/2014 7:08 PM, g wrote:
i did find a link at gofree.com that lead to videolan.org, which lead
to rpm.pbone.net, where i found binary rpms for fedora and other os's,
but none for centos.
so, it looks like if i want vlc for centos, i will have to try compile
source. not looking forward to such right now.
the problem is, VLC steps all over a bunch of patents for various
media formats, like mp3, mp4, which are heavily constrained by
patents.... players are supposed to pay royalties, so legitimate US
business at least can't distribute working binaries of free opensource
implementations.
I did find centos6 rpm's for VLC at rpmforge, but that repository is
now considered dead, and no longer updated, and in fact these binaries
were 3-4 years old.
NUX does the vlc suite for CentOS 6 - works just fine.
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