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By default, Fedora is not able to play mp3 files, videos etc. There are many patent issues behind mp3 which common end user don’t know. i.e. patent holders have not provided necessary licenses for including such packages in fedora. Fedora also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, such as Adobe Flash Player and RealNetworks RealPlayer.

RPM Fusion repositories give Fedora operating system the ability to play all kinds of audio and video formats — including, but not limited to MP3s or video files in MPEG or Xvid formats.You can browse the repository contents for the i386 architecture via these URLs (x86-64, ppc and ppc64 are supported as well):
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/repoview/index.html
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/repoview/index.html

To make RPM Fusion repositories available on a freshly installed Fedora system, we need to run the following command as super user  :

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

(Note: The above said is a single command )

To install Gstreamer plugins, run the command : yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Install Xine-lib : yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld

If you need to install mplayer, run : yum install mplayer-gui or  yum install gnome-mplayer

Now, Install VLC MediaPlayer : yum install vlc

More details and a GUI based way how to configure and use RPM Fusion can be found at http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

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