When the Mojo language first appeared, it was promoted as being the best of two worlds, bringing the ease of use and clear syntax of Python, along with the speed and memory safety of Rust. For some ...

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 ...

Additional note for Ubuntu users: snap sandboxing has become stricter, and while you could have used python-vlc with snap installed VLC with 20.04, you apparently cannot with Ubuntu 24.04. Thus use ...

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.

The VLC media player, with its support for almost every codec, video and audio format, and platform, is one of the best media players you can get. The app even lets you stream content from a PC if you ...

At CES 2025, non-profit organization VideoLAN announced that their open-source media player app VLC Media Player crossed an incredible milestone: over 6 billion downloads, TechCrunch reports.

The VLC media player from French-based developer VideoLAN is a leading free and open-source software product for playing audio and video files, CDs, DVDs and streaming media. It provides support for ...

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 ...