The latest release of the VLC media player is a huge hit, racking up nearly 8.6 million downloads since the 1.0 release last week, according to the makers of the software VideoLAN. But some observers ...

Update 2013-04-11: Thanks to Felix Paul Kühne, lead developer of VLC for Mac, this feature has been added to VLC 2.0.6 without the need for the user to make any changes to the app. If you use that ...

Ok, so everybody bitches and moans about Apple's DVD player and how it won't pass off a DD stream to a surround sound reciever, and that you should use VLC.<BR><BR>So I've got a 2x2ghz G5 tower with ...

NOTE: Many of these VLC tricks use the same dialogs, so rather than repeat the same steps every time, I'll be doing a thorough step-by-step once and then highlighting only the differences in the ...

Question: Hi Erin. In a recent article, you mentioned the VLC DVD player I just had a quick question for you about that. Does it rip a DVD if the DVD is protected? I just tried to rip one with Roxio, ...

Has anyone run into getting heavily distorted audio when playing back DVDs and VOB files under VLC? I can hear the dialogue, but it's under a lot of screeching, almost like part of the bitstream isn't ...