Media Player for linux - VLC

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for almost all major audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.

Here you can find all the supported format and platform details.

GNU/Linux Debian - KDE 3 - Qt interface and compiz
(1280x800)

Arch Linux - KDE 4 - Qt interface, album art and simple preferences
(1680x1050)

How to install

Debian

VLC's latest packaged version is always in the official Debian unstable branch. However you should still use our apt-get line if you need libdvdcss:

deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main

deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main

For a normal install, do:

# apt-get update

# apt-get install vlc libdvdcss2

UBUNTU

You need to check that a "multiverse" mirror is listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list.

% sudo apt-get update

% sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc

RED HAT

Use Dag wieers to have 0.8.6 for those versions!

Fedora 9 & Fedora 10

Use RPM Fusion for F9 and F10 (available for x86, x86_64, ppc and ppc64)
Install rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm for F9 and f10

    $> su -

    #> rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

    #> yum install vlc

    #> yum install mozilla-vlc (optionnal) 



OpenSUSE

sudo zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/ VLC

sudo zypper mr -r VLC

sudo zypper in vlc

openSUSEversion can be 10.3, 11.0 or 11.1