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

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

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

You sometimes may want to load media or links in other programs than Firefox. Instead of playing a movie natively in Firefox it is often better to play it in an external video player which offers additional controls and a better interface. Links usually do not need to be opened in another web browser. There [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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

Shoutcast is a popular music radio directory owned by AOL. It offers an efficient way to find radio stations based on genre and other parameters such as bitrate or compression. Shoutcast made the news recently when it was removed by the developers of the popular media player VLC from their application. You can read up [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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