VLC Media Player is complete software program, not just a media player. VLC has a method for converting FLV, AVI, and other video files to MP3 format. The steps are simple and it is quite useful when creating unique media files for applications when MP3 files need to be created by extracted audio from video [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Adobe and VideoLAN have released security updates for some of their software programs today. Adobe released a new version of Adobe Flash Player which fixes a security vulnerability in the popular application. The security bulletin reveals that an important security vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.16 and earlier on all supported operating [...]

Categories: Security

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

Early adopters who have already download the latest version of VLC Media Player 1.1 released yesterday may have noticed that Shoutcast support was dropped in the player. Shoutcast, or Shoutcast Radio, is a service that provides a directory of radio stations that can be sorted by genre or popularity. VLC Media Player did integrate that [...]

Categories: Open Source

The final version of the popular media player VLC 1.1 has just been released by its developers. The Open Source player continues to roll over the majority of competing players by being among the first to introduce support for WebM decoding and encoding, gpu decoding on Windows and Linux and an overall decoding speed increase. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

This football Worldcup in South Africa is notorious for two things until now. Boring football games and the annoying sound of the vuvuzela, the blaring horn that drowns all other background noises out. Some football watchers helped themselves by turning off the sound of the TV while others played around with their TV’s equalizer to [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

The VLC Media Player (VLC means VideoLan Client) is a popular cross-platform Open Source media player. The player’s capabilities to play many media files and streams without additional codec installation make it one of the prime choices for users who want to avoid “codec-hunting” hassles. Chance is VLC can play the file, physical media or [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

VLC Media Player is a popular media player available for Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Version 1.0 of the player has been downloaded more than 150 million times. A recent video player comparison at Techradar saw VLC 1.0 at the top of the field together with other popular players such as SMPlayer, KPlayer or [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The VideoLan team today announced the release of version 1.0.0 of their popular media player VLC Media Player. The major release introduces many few features, formats and codecs to VLC and fixes a high number of bugs that were present in previous versions of the media player. The changelog lists all of the changes and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows