RPM Fusion Repository

RPM Fusion Repository provides software that the Fedora Project
or Red Hat doesn't want to ship.
You will find software like VLC media player, Mencoder FFmpeg
and other software that is not available in the stock Fedora or
Red hat repositories.


to install the RPM Fusion repository on your system simply type
the following.

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

then you can install software directly ie
yum install vlc

How to find out what Distro you are running

uname -a will give you information about your running Kernel. To find out what Distribution is installed on a Particular system try one the following:

cat /etc/issue

or

cat /proc/version

or

cat /etc/*release