[CentOS] vlc?

Hey, folks,

   a co-worker raves that vlc is the bestestplaysthemostformats media
player there is, including being able to resize videos. I see it's only
over on repoforge for CentOS, but trying to install it at home (I'm
running 5.8, 32-bit), it wants about 30 or more dependencies, and one
or two of them, of course, have conflicts.

   Has anyone installed it in a 5.x environment? If so, what did you do?

       mark