Most people open VLC, hit play, and call it a day. Turns out, that's barely scratching the surface.

Update 2013-04-11: Thanks to Felix Paul Kühne, lead developer of VLC for Mac, this feature has been added to VLC 2.0.6 without the need for the user to make any changes to the app. If you use that ...

If you download videos with BitTorrent, you've probably come across a few that are compressed inside an RAR file, which can be a bit of a pain. It turns out, however, that you can easily watch ...

The VLC media player is an amazing piece of software. In its most basic form it is a lightweight media player that can play almost any audio or video format you throw at it. VLC is also multiplatform ...

mpv earned a place on my workstation for good ...

Let’s just rip off the Band-Aid and get the bad news out of the way: The standard version of Windows 8 won’t include Windows Media Center or the ability to play DVDs by default. Wait! Put down those ...

VLC is one of the most popular audio-video players for Windows. However, when you install VLC, it does not become the default media player for the computer i.e., when you double-click on a media file, ...

The ability to play virtually any file type without external codecs and cornucopia of controls makes VLC a must-have download. If you don’t have VLC, aka the VideoLAN Player, installed on your system, ...

say i add a bunch of songs to a vlc playlist, i know there is a similar option in winamp where you can make an html tracklist of the files in your playlist. is there a similar option for VLC.. even if ...

Having already splashed down on the iPad last month, VLC is now available for iPhone as well, making virtually all video formats playable without conversion. Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...