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After 20 years together, VLC and I are finally breaking up, and it's because of this app

I might never see the orange cone again ...
GIGAZINE

Multimedia player "VLC media player" which can be played on DivX or DVD without requiring special codec

Audio and video codecs such as Windows Media Video (.wmv), Flash (.flv), MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (.mp3), DivX (.divx), DVD etc. count as few as possible . If it is WMV or AVIWindows Media PlayerAlthough ...
CNET

VLC steps into next-gen video wars with VP9, HEVC support

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 ...
Linux Journal

Video Codecs and the Free World

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 ...
Engadget

VLC hits version 2.0: brings presents to all the platforms (update: it's the RC version)

Open-source friend to all the video codecs, VLC media player, has hit version 2.0, bringing with it a raft of new features across Mac OS, Windows and Unix versions. VideoLAN's also brought the player ...
Engadget

VLC 1.1 released, adds hardware acceleration and new codec support

VLC 1.1 was just released, adding hardware acceleration on Windows Vista, 7, and Linux (no mention of the Mac just yet), along with a general 40 percent speed boost from a massive code cleanup. A new ...