My favorite free, open-source media player just got a major update. Video LAN Client, known to many as VLC Player, is now up to version 2.0 Twoflower. This update includes thousands of big fixes, ...

VLC, one of the best-known catch-all media players around has been updated to version 2.0. The update offers a vastly improved OS X layout as well as experimental Blu-ray support, faster decoding, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

MPEG-2 / H.264 / DivX / MPEG-4 / WebM / MPEG-4 / MPEG-4 / MPEG-4 / MPEG- Various movie files such as WMV can be played, DVD, CD, VCD, Blu-Ray can also be played back, streaming of web cameras can be ...

VLC was one of the first open source media players to be capable of playing back encrypted DVD's, and it has now become the first to bring Blu-ray playback capability, too. But wait, playback of ...

I've heard of (and even sometimes used) video players like VLC when Windows Media Player prompts me to download "new codecs", but I've also heard people talk about codec packs like K-Lite, Shark007, ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...