Thanks to Earl for the NUX repo recommendation. Good VLC and ffmpeg versions (for CentOS) here. From what i can tell, atrpms died a death earlier this year or the end of last cheers - cal sawyer Earl A Ramirez <earlaramirez at gmail.com> wrote: To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is ATRPMs dead? On 14 Sep 2015 14:12, "Cal Sawyer" <cal-s at blue-bolt.com> wrote: Haven't been able to reach atrpms.net for over a week from London, UK, when i last looked for it after a couple of intervening months. Did i miss something? And if atrpms is truly defunct, where's a good place to obtain updated versions of vlc and mplayer now? thanks! - cal _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Have never used ATRPMS but a good alternative for at least VLC is Nux repo; I have been using it since EL 6 and it works just as good on EL 7.