Eureka, I got VLC mediaplayer to work!!!!

I have (finally) gotten my beloved VLC media player, which seems to play everything except possible AAC files working in FC4.

Basically, I will simply this process for all who are interested.

First prepare. Open up FFx (by now any reader should have figured out that FFx is an abbrev for Firefox) and go to the following page

http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html

This is the configuration page for the livna repository. You have to do basically two things here, both of which amount to the same thing. You must manually (as I detailed somewhat in an earlier post) or automatically configure your system for using yum on livna.

Under the FC4 section there is a section for yum. If you click on livna-release in the dl window which pops up, choose open with. It will prompt you for the root password. It worked correctly for me to automatically set up for livna. If not dl the file, save it to a known location (and FFx tip, in the download manager if you right click on a dled file, it will ask you -at least in linux- if you want to open the dl directory) and then run it with the command line listed there.

Then go here

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshr...shrpms-release/

download the file that ends with noarch.rpm and install that by either of the above methods.

this sets up yum for the following site

http://freshrpms.net/

then open a terminal window

su -

(note the -, that makes things a lot easier)

enter the root password

on the next line type

yum install videolan-client

follow the prompts.