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 now considered dead, and no longer updated, and in fact these binaries 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. > > > >