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 ...

VLC's Win32 app is the latest addition to the Microsoft Store, and it blows its UWP equivalent out of the water. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to ...

I've tried most of the mainstream media players and disliked all of them for one reason or another. Windows Media Player irritates me by not allowing me to uninstall it, and with its baffling ...

For several years, the free, third-party media player of choice for many video connoisseurs was the open-source https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64558 ...

The web site for the popular VLC Media Player - VideoLan.org - is getting a big warning in Bing when users hover their cursor over it. This warning states that the "Site might be dangerous" and that ...

Microsoft wants to charge you $15 to spin your old movies, and doesn't even support Blu-ray. Fortunately, there are freebie alternatives. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of ...

This week the folks behind the video player app VLC announced that they'd be bringing a major new version of the product to the public later this year. VLC 4.0 will be released in the year 2021 with a ...

VLC is one of those open-source gifts to humankind that we certainly don’t deserve. A lightweight, bloat-resistant, stable, and endlessly compatible piece of software that we mostly use to play back ...

At last, VideoLAN's VLC media player has a universal Windows 10 app... and it definitely won't be confined to conventional Windows devices for long. The developer has released a Windows 10 beta that, ...

Those of you who use VLC media player and Apple CarPlay can now bring the two together to listen to music when you're behind the wheel. Released early this week, the latest iOS version of VLC adds a ...