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I am trying to play a video on a headless Centos 7 system, using X11 forwarding. It fails with various errors: $ cvlc my_video.mp4 VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-3-g410bff0959) [000000000131a9b0] dbus interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: /usr/bin/dbus-laun...

I have installed VLC on a headless Centos 7 system and am running it from a Windows client via SSH and X11 forwarding. VLC starts and displays in a window on the Windows client but I see the following errors on the console: $ vlc VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-3-g410bff0959) [000000...

I fixed the ffmpeg-libs problem by:

$ yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel
$ yum install vlc

Hi I am trying to install VLC on Centos 7, using the instructions here: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-redhat.html I ran: sudo yum -y install epel-release sudo -E rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm sudo -E yum install https://dl....

Thanks for your reply. I will try to reinstall.

I am trying to run vlc on a headless server running Centos 7. I am connecting from a Windows laptop using ssh, the laptop runs X server. I invoke vlc as follows: $ vlc --x11-display :0 ~/Videos/Pexels_Videos_1093662.mp4 and see the following output: VLC media player 2.2.4 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.3-...