With VLC 2.1.1, VideoLAN continues to sidestep the software patent licensing minefield of video compression. Meanwhile, open-source allies put muscle behind the new Daala codec. Stephen Shankland ...

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The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), which aims to develop free and open codecs, has released a draft specification for the next-generation video compression standard, ' AV2 '. Prior to the release, ...

VLC, a completely free and ad-free multimedia player, can run on multiple platforms such as Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, and is an application that supports many media codecs and formats.

Like VideoLAN Client, MPlayer OS X Extended is another media player alternative that includes support for a number of codecs. It comes with support for most common ones, but has the option for ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

After a very long wait, VideoLAN finally releases a major upgrade to the popular media player VLC, its 2.0 version. Dubbed as VLC 2.0 Twoflower, the upgrade features more supported video formats, ...

Last week, VideoLAN released VLC 2.1.1, which incorporates HEVC and VCP9 playback on many of the multiple platforms supported by the player, which includes Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android, FreeBSD, ...