With VLC 2.1.1, VideoLAN continues to sidestep the software patent licensing minefield of video compression. Meanwhile, open-source allies put muscle behind the new Daala codec. Stephen Shankland ...

Everyone knows about Apple's torrid history about apps in their App Store. From rejections, to removals, they've covered the gamut of making sure the App Store held nothing in it that Apple would find ...

Is there a missing codec? If you wonder what is a codec, here’s a little explanation. The word codec comes from Encoding and Decoding. What codecs do is compress and decompress digital media files.

VLC, a completely free and ad-free multimedia player, can run on multiple platforms such as Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, and is an application that supports many media codecs and formats.

Audio and video codecs such as Windows Media Video (.wmv), Flash (.flv), MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (.mp3), DivX (.divx), DVD etc. count as few as possible . If it is WMV or AVIWindows Media PlayerAlthough ...

VLC, the worldwide answer to the question “do you want to use Windows Media Player to open this file?” just received its first major update in two years. VLC 3.0 is now available on all the supported ...

If there’s a video that is not natively playing on your TV or smartphones, or there is a video of a song that you only need ...

VLC 1.1 was just released, adding hardware acceleration on Windows Vista, 7, and Linux (no mention of the Mac just yet), along with a general 40 percent speed boost from a massive code cleanup. A new ...

NOTE: Many of these VLC tricks use the same dialogs, so rather than repeat the same steps every time, I'll be doing a thorough step-by-step once and then highlighting only the differences in the ...