Open source media player VLC is known as a Swiss Army knife of video players. It can handle pretty much any DRM-free video format you can throw at it, from WMV to MKV, with a little H.264, Xvid and ...

WIndows/Mac/Linux: VLC, our favorite plays-it-all download, has rolled out its official 1.1 release, cementing the hardware video acceleration for smoother HD playing, bundling support for the open ...

Windows/Linux: VLC gets a lot of praise around here, but it's Achilles' heel has long been a lack of hardware-accelerated playing, which means HD content choking up. A rough 1.1 preview offers ...

VideoLAN, the non-profit French organisation behind various open-source projects, has introduced a new release of its ever-popular VLC media player. Version 1.1, codenamed 'The Luggage', is available ...

VLC 1.1 was just released, adding hardware acceleration on Windows Vista, 7, and Linux (no mention of the Mac just yet), along with a general 40 percent speed boost from a massive code cleanup. A new ...

VLC 1.1 is getting lots of love today as it rolls out on Windows, Mac, and Linux. But Mac users seem to be left behind, as Nvidia-based hardware acceleration only works on Windows and Linux systems.

VideoLAN has today launched several updates to VLC across its apps on iOS, Android, OS X, and every other platform where the app is available, marking the first time that the company has pushed such a ...

VideoLAN has today launched several updates to VLC across its apps on iOS, Android, OS X, and every other platform where the app is available, marking the first time that the company has pushed such a ...