How to install newest VLC player ?

how to install the newest VLC player from repository.

You need to install signing key for repository.

Description

This PPA contains the latest version of VLC.

% sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 7613768D

and APT-GET sources.list entries for Jaunty (9.04)

% deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/vlc/ubuntu jaunty main
% deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/vlc/ubuntu jaunty main

for others ubuntu distro just change "jaunty" to your distro,
"intrepid (8.10) or hardy (8.04)

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols

supported video formats