Tag: VLC
Five Best Windows Apps for Streaming Video Content
Watching videos is something that most people do on their computer daily. Whether you are watching through a website, streaming URLs using a native player, or downloading video files and […]
VLC adds in-app extension browser
VideoLAN player, which is perhaps better known as VLC is today launching version 3.0 – and with it is bringing an in-app extension browser that will help you make the […]
DivX support (hopefully) headed to the iPad thanks to VLC player
DivX and Xvid video support may soon be making its way to Apple's iPad via the team at the open-source media player, VLC. One of most consistently useful free media playing desktop applications out there, VLC are now in the…
VLC 0.9.2 will play any video, ever
VLC Media Player has just released version 0.9.2. We don’t often cover incremental software updates, but I wanted to spotlight VLC for those of you who aren’t aware of this fantastic, lightweight, media player. If you’ve got it already, then feel free to move on to the next article. If not, then here’s why you need VLC in your life.
Compatibility
First of all, VLC will play just about anything you can throw at it. FLV. Ogg. Codecced-up AVI files. Just about anything – including stuff that ol’ Windows Media Player won’t recognise because it’s damaged in some way.
Catch up on latest Lost episodes on your iPhone with VLC media player support
Playing ill-gotten video files on your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch just got easier, with Zottd porting the VLC media player to the devices, allowing easy drag and drop of MPEG/MPG, AVI and MP3 formats.
At the moment, support for the codecs VCD, DivX, WMA, WMV, FLAC and OGG is still being tinkered on, but he thinks he’ll have that figured out soon enough. Don’t all rush towards Bittorrent at once, folks…
