I have been using Linux OS for the past 10 years. I believe that I've finally found a system that's stable, easy on the eyes, minimum of pre-install packages, HDMI friendly, speed and reliability.
Well, the OS is CentOS 7. I was extremely surprise that everything works. I even install CenOS 6 on an old desktop But sadly some necessary packages were not pre-installed. If you're a regular Linux user , you should have no problem adding those packages, but if you're a novice or new implant from Windows or Mac, you will have to dig around to find all the info you need.
I decided to add these instructions to help my redears:
How to setup multimedia
You will need to also install the EPEL repository as nux-dextop depends on this for some of its packages.
Step 1: Install the nux-dextop repository
Run this command to install the nux-dextop repository.
yum -y install http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
Step 2: Install the adobe repository
Run this command to install the adobe repository.
yum -y install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Step 3: Install the desired packages
This command will download the flash plugin for Firefox.
yum install flash-plugin
This command will download the java plugin for Firefox.
yum install icedtea-web
This command will install Handbrake, VLC and smplayer.
yum install vlc smplayer ffmpeg HandBrake-{gui,cli}
The
following command installs a decoder and codecs which are required to
play certain types of media. Their usage may be legally restricted in
some areas. Obtain legal advice if you are uncertain about the laws in
your locality.
yum install libdvdcss gstreamer{,1}-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld
Install VLC
The default distribution of VLC includes
a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the
need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC’s codecs
are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it
uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers and its own protocols
implementations. It also gained distinction as the first player to
support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux and OS X by using the
libdvdcss DVD decryption library.
For EL7:
Install EPEL from http://www.unixmen.com/install-epel-repository-centos-rhel-7/
rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-1.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
For EL6:
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm
Now:
yum update
yum install vlc
Installing (rpmfusion) Free and Nonfree Repositories
We have two separate software repositories:
free
for Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing
Guidelines) which the Fedora project cannot ship due to other reasons
nonfree
for redistributable software that is not Open Source Software (as
defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines); this includes software with
publicly available source-code that has "no commercial use"-like
restrictions
Installation can be done either using a web browser, or via the command line.
Graphical Setup via Firefox web browser
First enable access to the free
repository. For users of gpk (gnome package kit) or kpackagekit in
Fedora that is easy and basically only one step: just click on one of
the following files, depending on what distribution you use and then
follow the default options that Firefox and Package Kit offer by
clicking Enter a few times:
Once that succeeds, you can enable access to the nonfree
repositories by clicking on one of the following files, depending on
what distribution you use and then follow the default options that
Firefox and Package Kit offer by clicking Enter a few times(¹):
Once you clicked on above link Firefox will ask you how to Open the file. Here you can simply use the default and open the file with the default application Package Installer. Then Firefox will call Package Kit, which asks Do you want to install this file ?. Click OK to begin install; Package Kit then will complain about a Missing security signature; once you tell Package Kit to install the package nevertheless it will move on and install it. That's all.
Command Line Setup using rpm
To enable access to both the free and the nonfree repository use the following command:
Fedora 14 to the most current:
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'
RHEL 5 or compatible like CentOS:
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/5/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-5-1.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/5/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-5-1.noarch.rpm'
RHEL 6 or compatible like CentOS:
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-6-1.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-6-1.noarch.rpm'
For further info and wiki you can visit the official CentOS:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
