VLC, the worldwide answer to the question “do you want to use Windows Media Player to open this file?” just received its first major update in two years. VLC 3.0 is now available on all the supported ...

The big picture: VLC, initially released in 2001, has stood the test of time. With meaningful updates and support for modern platforms, the application is well on its way to smashing the four billion ...

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Open source video player app VLC was mere hours away from surpassing 3 billion downloads Friday, and the Videolan team celebrated the occasion with a special download counter at their CES booth in Las ...

Early Wednesday morning, VideoLAN, the non-profit that builds and maintains VLC, announced on Twitter that it is now blacklisting HUAWEI phones, as first spotted by FrAndroid. As you can see from the ...

VLC, developed by French non-profit VideoLAN, passed the milestone on Friday. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf told Variety that VLC will soon gain AirPlay support, allowing Android phones to ...

India has lifted the download ban on VLC, more than nine months after it mysteriously blocked the official website of the popular media playback software in the South Asian market. VideoLAN, the ...

In July of last year, nonprofit organization VideoLAN blocked Huawei smartphones from downloading the VLC app from the Google Play Store. That move was prompted by Huawei's aggressive background task ...

If the media player is not opening or working at all, make sure you have downloaded it from the official website. Many attackers and scammers often use a replica of popular software to scam common ...

VideoLAN and Huawei are in a fight. So much so, that you can no longer grab the ever-popular, feature-packed VLC media player app from the Google Play Store on Huawei smartphones—VideoLAN’s nuclear ...

In brief: TechSpot lists VLC Player as an essential app to install on a PC or Mac, but one of the world's most populous countries has tried to ban it. The attempt may be due to regional tensions, but ...