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 ...

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 ...

It’s not the prettiest app you’ll find in the Apple Store, but there’s nothing better when it comes to playing videos and music encoded with atypical codecs. The Apple TV is a great networked media ...

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 ...

VideoLAN Client has been a popular media player for OS X that has developed and progressed over the years, but at this point because of the lack of Mac developers helping the project, unfortunately ...

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 ...