The world of open source software has ample choices for editing andmanipulating audio and video media files. But when you just want putyour feet up and relax, fewer really ideal options are available.

The VLC streaming player from the VideoLAN Organization is an open-source audio and video player. The player will play video or audio files stored locally on your hard drive, and will also play ...

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The always popular VLC media player is getting even better with support for Chromecast, 360-degree video, 3D Audio, and a tweaked UI. The best free media player is getting even better. After three ...

As always, VLC is the free media player you want on your system…but the differences in 2.1, while real and welcome, are hard to spot. Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide The VideoLAN ...

Free iPhone and iPad media player, VLC, has finally succumbed to DRM squabbles and has been yanked from the App Store by Apple. Back in November 2010 one of the program's primary developers, ...

The VLC media player is one of the most user-friendly platforms available for video playback, making it a great option among free media players. And as of its 3.0 version released in 2018, you can now ...

After nearly a billion downloads of its VLC media player across Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS and Android, VideoLan has an new platform: Chrome OS. For nearly 15 years, VLC has become known around the ...

Like the desktop version of VLC, the new ChromeOS iteration can play most video files and is also a full audio player. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced ...

UPDATE (July 24th, 2019) The issue has taken a rather unexpected twist after the vulnerability was disclosed, with VideoLAN dismissing the bug reports and lambasting MITRE in the process. Minutes ago, ...

VLC was developed by students from Ecole Centrale Paris, a prestigious university in France. Gene Baptist Kemp, who is the lead developer of VLC at the time of writing the article, was also a student ...