VideoLan says it will soon release a major 2.0 release of its open source VLC media player, which will contain many new features of interest to OS X users. The new VLC will support Blu-ray playback, ...

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 ...

The latest release of the VLC media player is a huge hit, racking up nearly 8.6 million downloads since the 1.0 release last week, according to the makers of the software VideoLAN. But some observers ...

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 ...

VLC is easily one of our favorite media players (and yours too). While it can handle nearly every movie you throw at it, it can also do so much more. You don’t need to be a power user to understand ...

VideoLAN has announced that the next major update to its popular media player VLC will add support for Google’s Chromecast streaming dongle. This will allow users to stream all kinds of video and ...

VLC Media Player 3.0.7 was released on Friday and contained the most security updates ever in one release of the program. The president of the VideoLan non-profit organization states that this was due ...

The developers of VLC had earlier confirmed that they would soon release a dedicated version of VLC for Windows 8. However, details of the same have been made available only now. Even though VideoLAN ...

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 ...

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 ...