there are a bunch of prerequisites
that will need to be installed by hand , then there is the issue that a non paid for rhel5.1
has not had any of the recent security fixes installed ( they are in the rhn - the paid for access to )
are you prepared to install all of these by hand ?- some are in the default rhel but might be the wrong version
( in red at the bottom of the page )
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i386.rpm.html

you might -- but with out the normal updates ?? it might work ?
fallow the centOS guide and use the cent updates repo and the cent epel
but you might kill the system if you are not VERY VERY VERY careful

-- but if you are going to use red hat then pay for it or install and use CentOS

Hello adenial,

I was having same problem, about the installation of vlc in rhel 6. But i found the solution

Go to this link; http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct...ZW3m5dIQJGvR0A

First of all let us know if you are using licensed version of RHEl or not, so that we can guide you to proceed further.

I would recommend you to install the following package,so that it will configure your repository automatically.

* Download the rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
then install the following dependency packages for vlc

* Download the fribidi-0.19.2-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
then
* Download the arts-1.5.4-1.x86_64.rpm

after done all the above steps now install vlc using yum from your bash shell.

#yum install vlc

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The installation process will go on now.
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use the vlc.

The OP hasn't made a post on this forum in over two years, I doubt he even still has this problem, and probably won't see this thread anyway.