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 ...

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 ...

Is there a missing codec? If you wonder what is a codec, here’s a little explanation. The word codec comes from Encoding and Decoding. What codecs do is compress and decompress digital media files.

Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC is one of our favorite video players out there. The release of version 2.1 packs in a ton of new features, including significant improvements to how it handles outputting videos ...

Until date I thought VLC was just a video player, but I was wrong!

MPEG-2 / H.264 / DivX / MPEG-4 / WebM / MPEG-4 / MPEG-4 / MPEG-4 / MPEG- Various movie files such as WMV can be played, DVD, CD, VCD, Blu-Ray can also be played back, streaming of web cameras can be ...