Everyone loves VLC, but it's not the only open-source option around.

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, ...

VLC, the popular video-playing software offering support for a wide range of media formats, is now available for Apple TV. For those with large video collections, that means you’ll be able to play ...

Open-source media-player VLC has now passed three-billion downloads, with developers VideoLAN broadcasting the milestone at CES Las Vegas using a massive download counter made of nine mobile devices.

I still remember when I first met you, VLC. It was the early 2000s. The family computer had a hard drive measured in megabytes, and it was impossible to find a good bit of software to play video files ...

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 ...

The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers can run a variety of operating systems, but there is one operating system that’s officially supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It’s called ...

A lightweight modern player that keeps VLC's codec power while adding a polished Windows native interface and touch support.

VLC Media Player 3.0.7 was released on Friday and contained the most security updates ever in one release of the program. The president of the VideoLan non-profit organization states that this was due ...

VideoLan says it will soon release a major 2.0 release of its open source VLC media player, which will contain many new features of interest to OS X users. The new VLC will support Blu-ray playback, ...

VLC was developed by students from Ecole Centrale Paris, a prestigious university in France. Gene Baptist Kemp, who is the lead developer of VLC at the time of writing the article, was also a student ...