Audio and video codecs such as Windows Media Video (.wmv), Flash (.flv), MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (.mp3), DivX (.divx), DVD etc. count as few as possible . If it is WMV or AVIWindows Media PlayerAlthough ...

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 ...

Apple announced on Mac OS Forge today that they have open sourced their Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). ALAC was introduced in 2004 as OS X’s core audio codec to compress audio files 40-60 percent ...

It’s not the prettiest app you’ll find in the Apple Store, but there’s nothing better when it comes to playing videos and music encoded with atypical codecs. The Apple TV is a great networked media ...

The ability to play virtually any file type without external codecs and cornucopia of controls makes VLC a must-have download. If you don’t have VLC, aka the VideoLAN Player, installed on your system, ...

As always, VLC is the free media player you want on your system…but the differences in 2.1, while real and welcome, are hard to spot. The VideoLAN Player, a.k.a. VLC, rarely struts a flashy update.

VLC is perhaps one of the most popular software on various platforms, chiefly because it's a media player that can open almost any type of media file. Now it's gotten even better. A new 3.0 update for ...