During a recent talk at the FOSDEM conference, VLC‘s lead developer gave us a sneak peek at changes coming to the open source, cross-platform media player in the coming year. Under the hood VLC 4.0 ...

This week the folks behind the video player app VLC announced that they'd be bringing a major new version of the product to the public later this year. VLC 4.0 will be released in the year 2021 with a ...

VideoLAN showcased its new VLC 4 build at the CES 2026 show in Las Vegas, which was running AV2 video playback on a regular laptop.

Well, at least I learned about mpv. To be honest, I'd be happy with just using DragonPlayer on KDE, but I think I've found the Gstreamer backend to work better than the VLC backend and so there are ...

VLC is one of the most popular video apps because it will play just about any format you throw at it. Fans will be pleased to hear that VLC 4 will bring a more modern look to the app in the coming ...

This week more details have been released by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf who confirmed plans for the next version of VLC version 4.0, codenamed Otto Chriek. New features expected to be ...

Popular media player receives 33 security bug fixes, two of which are rated high severity. Maintainers of the popular open-source VLC media player patched two high-severity bugs Friday. The flaws were ...

Also, VLC is the app used by everyone I know who ever has trouble opening a video file, which is most people not just power users. Any time anyone calls up their tech friend and says "hey, I'm having ...