While it would have been considered science-fiction just a few decades ago, the ability to watch virtually any movie or TV show on a little slab that fits in your pocket is today no big deal. But for ...

For several years, I've been using a $50 Philips DVP-642 to watch Xvids. The only problem is I have to burn 10 or so .avi files to the disk which holds me for a few days, but then I have to do it ...

The built-in media players of most devices are simple and often do not meet the requirements of the users. Many device manufacturers do this intentionally to keep the user experience simple, encourage ...

VLC Media Player has long been the go-to alternative for Windows Media Player on PCs. In fact, it used to be one of the first few apps I installed as soon as I set up a new computer. Over time, though ...

Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...

Media Player Classic (MPC-HC) is a light-weight, open source media player designed for Windows. It supports playback for all common video and audio file formats. If you have recently changed the ...

VLC is one of the most popular audio-video players for Windows. However, when you install VLC, it does not become the default media player for the computer i.e., when you double-click on a media file, ...