Adding an animated desktop to your Windows workspace can increase your computer's visual appeal. You could, for example, set up your animated desktop to display a slideshow of family photos, or to ...

Since the demise of DreamScene with Windows Vista, users have been denied the option of having moving pictures as their desktop backdrop, but the hugely useful VLC Media Player provides something of a ...

VideoLAN has released an updated version of its VLC Player to fix over a dozen bugs. Two high-risk vulnerabilities in the VLC media player could allow an adversary to craft a malicious .MKV video file ...

Not all video players are alike. Some offer more features and tweaking options to make your videos look great, while others boast speed and stability. Last week we asked you for your favorites, then ...

Watching movies and TV shows on your computer is easy, but if you do a lot of downloading or ripping, you need a video player that's lightweight, can handle virtually anything you throw at it, whether ...

At long last, the Windows 8 Metro environment has a decent media player that can play MKV files: VLC for Windows 8! VLC Media Player Beta for Windows 8 is a complete reimagining of VLC for Microsoft's ...

For many people there’s only one media player you need on your desktop and that is of course the open source wonder – VideoLan Client (VLC) Media Player. The inclusion of codecs within the player make ...

We know that the iPad is (mostly) great for video playback, if you buy your movies and TV shows from iTunes or go through the trouble of converting non-Apple-supported formats. But what if there were ...

The open source media player and streaming media server, VLC, will add support to Google's Chromecast streaming dongle. Felix Paul Kühne, VideoLAN lead developer on VLC for OS X and iOS, recently ...

We know that the iPad is (mostly) great for video playback, as long as you can be bothered to convert it to the right format or buy your movies and TV shows from Apple. But what if there were a way to ...