One of my favorite media players of all time, SMPlayer, has recently been updated to version 0.7.0. SMPlayer is a front-end for MPlayer making it a player that supports nearly every video format out of the box without the need to go codec hunting before you can start watching the video or movie you are [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

VLC is one of the most popular third party media players. If you check the download stats on portals such as Softpedia or Betanews, you will notice that it is always listed in one of the top spots. That’s not because of the player’s pretty name but the functionality it provides. VLC plays nearly every [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

Media player hotkeys allow you to control the media player with the keyboard and even if the program window is not the active window on the system. That’s handy if you are working in fullscreen applications or do not want to switch regularly between the window you are working in and the media player window. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One of the lesser known features of the VLC Media Player is the ability to convert, transcode and rip media. The feature is built-in in all recent versions of VLC. So, why would someone want to convert or rip media with VLC? One of the reasons is that you do not need to install another [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Listening to music is a big part of the computer experience for many people. Having an organized music library is a point of pride for music enthusiasts, and even casual computer users tend to enjoy the ease with which albums and artists can be summoned with a computer. In their listening, many people grow partial [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

VLC Media Player is one of the most popular media players, next to Windows Media Player and MPlayer frontends. A high popularity usually has the downside that criminals try to find and exploit security vulnerabilities in the software or service. Several of the most recent updates of VLC were or did include security updates that [...]

Categories: Security, Software

Those of you who follow me on Twitter or through other social networks may know that for the last month I’ve been testing NetGear’s new, top of the range Neo TV 550 Ultimate HD Media. This box is a small, and I really do mean small, do it all box for the connected home.  It [...]

Categories: Hardware

MPlayer is one of the most popular media players. Many media players are actually using MPlayer as their core. This is for instance the case for the two players KMPlayer and SMPlayer. Both offer an improved interface and better direct customizability. MPlayer WW is another variant for Windows users. It features a slick interface, great [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software, Windows

Nothing is more frustrating than having to wait until a media player has finished building the font cache, before a video can be played on the local computer system. Especially so, if the “building font cache” window appears every time the media player is used to play videos. The first question that comes to mind [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Tutorials Basic, Windows