No matter what kind of computer you have or what OS you use, VLC is usually the best way to play back video. On Mac, Windows, and Linux, VLC is an ultra-lightweight program that plays anything you ...

I still remember when I first met you, VLC. It was the early 2000s. The family computer had a hard drive measured in megabytes, and it was impossible to find a good bit of software to play video files ...

Why it matters: VLC is universally regarded as one of the best (if not the best) media players available today. A new version released a couple of days ago brings further improvements for the ...

Popular cross-platform media player gets yanked from the App Store--at the request of the software's original developer. Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world who enjoys taking ...

The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers can run a variety of operating systems, but there is one operating system that’s officially supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It’s called ...

Late last week VideoLAN released version 3.0.0 of its popular multi-platform media playing client VLC. Version 3.0 of VLC, branch codename Vetinari, has a number of standout attractions destined to ...

February 3, 2001. I was still in college, living abroad in Scotland. The United States was in the first month of the George W. Bush presidency. Gladiator was poised to win the Best Picture Oscar ...

The European Union has announced this week that it will foot the bill for a bug bounty program that will run for the benefit of VLC Media Player, an open source cross-platform multimedia player. The ...

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can ...