Once or twice every week, VLC comes in really handy with some of its features.

VLC will make it easy to stream to Apple TV from anywhere. Photo: VideoLAN Popular open-source video player VLC is getting AirPlay support “in about a month.” VideoLan, the team behind it, also plans ...

The popular video player, VLC is now coming with a new user interface and a more modern outlook. Furthermore, VLC's developer VideoLAN is working on bringing a web-based player for users. As reported ...

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Playing video files on Apple TV just got a lot easier: VLC, long cherished by its users as an app with support for a wide variety of video formats, officially launched on Apple TV Tuesday. The new app ...

VideoLAN this week updated its open-source VLC media player with a significant number of new features. VLC version 3.0 adds support for Chromecast, which lets people push video from their handset to ...

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 ...

Well, color us surprised (and delighted). Apple has approved VLC Media Player for iPad, an app that plays a multitude of movie formats unsupported by the tablet's built-in video player. VLC has been a ...

VLC is known as a Swiss Army Knife of media players for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It can handle almost any video codec you care to throw its way. So the news that Applidium was porting the open source ...

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Popular video player VLC has been absent from the iOS App Store since it was pulled without explanation in September, but the developer of the app has indicated it could become available for download ...

News website Protocol ran an extensive piece on the history and status of the popular open source video player VLC, and the story includes new details about the next major version of the software.