Download VLC Media Player 1.1.0 with WebM Support

By Martin Kaba • May 26th, 2010 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Windows

More and more organizations are committing to support WebM project. Giants like Skype, Oracle are already part of the long list of supporters. Miro Video Converter can convert your videos to the WebM (VP8) format.
Developers of the popular open source media player VLC (VideoLAN) have released a stable release candidate of VLC 1.1.0 that […]

VLC 1.0.2 Security and Maintenance Update

By Martin Kaba • Sep 24th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows, portable

The popular open source media player VLC gets a maintenance release to fix bugs found in previously released VLC 1.0.1. VLC 1.0.1 that was rolled out about two months ago had a number of bugs and security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in VLC 1.0.2. VLC 1.0.2 fixes issues in subtitles, Theora video compression format […]

VLC Portable 1.0 for your Pen Drive

By Martin Kaba • Jul 8th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Video, Windows

After upgrading to VLC 1.0 on your home and office PCs, its now time to get the 20MB, no-install VLC Portable 1.0 on your thumb drive.
VLC Portable 1.0 is a carbon-copy of the original VLC 1.0. It has all the features you’ll find in VLC 1.0, moreover it respects your privacy as it leaves behind […]

VLC 1.0 “Goldeneye” RC1 for Linux

By Martin Kaba • May 13th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Now available is the source code of the popular open source, cross-platform Media Player VLC 1.0 RC1 for Linux. You’ll have to compile it and resolve many dependency issues to have it on and running on your Ubuntu.
The release of the Windows version of VLC 1.0 rc1 was announced here yesterday.
No official statement or release […]

VLC 1.0 “Goldeneye” RC1 for Windows

By Martin Kaba • May 13th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Windows

The popular open source, cross-platform multimedia player, VLC goes 1.0. This is still a release candidate for Windows only.
VLC is known for its ability to play a wide range of audio formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, wma etc), as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols, out of the box. […]

VLC media player 0.9.2 – Not only a New Look

By Martin Kaba • Sep 17th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Install VLC Media Player in Ubuntu and skin it to look like Windows Media Player

By Martin Kaba • Feb 20th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Multimedia

Why not be grateful to VLC Media Player – because when it comes to videos nothing is ever easy as it should be, yet this media player with an open source background is doing much to make it easy. It is constantly updated, improved, with new features coming up.
It supports playback of most of […]