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While tech giants kept building bloated media apps, a scrappy open-source project called VideoLan quietly ate their lunch by playing every weird file you could throw at it. Here's how to get the most ...

VLC Media Player for Android, Windows PC, and Apple Mac can cast videos and audio to any Chromecast-enabled device. When watching a movie on VLC, you can stream it to a Chromecast-connected big-screen ...

VLC isn’t just one of the most capable video player apps out there, but one of the most popular PC apps of all time. It’s entirely free, it’s open-source, and it’s so widely loved by nearly everyone.

In the vast expanse of digital media technology, few names are as recognisable or as enduring as VLC Media Player. An emblem of open-source success, VLC has evolved significantly since its inception, ...

A DVD ripping software is used to convert DVD content into digital files. It lets you back up your DVD collection and play the media everywhere on modern devices such as laptop, smartphone, Apple TV, ...

The VLC media player includes an ActiveX control that you can embed into your PowerPoint presentations. PowerPoint natively supports certain video and audio formats, but VLC can play many other ...

VLC Media Player is a versatile tool that can handle a wide range of media files, but by default, it does not support playing YouTube playlists directly. However, with a simple addon and some ...

For users of VLC Media Player, finding and downloading subtitles for foreign movies and TV series can be a tedious task. However, with the VLSub extension, this process becomes seamless and efficient.

Is there a frame of a film you want to extract as a picture? Then VLC is the right tool for the job. VLC has an inbuilt option called snapshots, which lets you export your favourite parts of a video ...