Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...

I’ve been covering Android since 2023, when I joined Android Police, mostly focusing on AI and everything around Pixel and Galaxy phones. I’ve got a bachelor’s in IT with a major in AI, so I naturally ...

While tech giants kept building bloated media apps, a scrappy open-source project called VideoLan quietly ate their lunch by playing every weird file you could throw at it. Here's how to get the most ...

There are times when you may want to prevent videos and GIFs from automatically playing in your social media feeds. This could be because you’re trying to conserve cellular data, limit the ...

Every day, new videos beam onto your smartphone that you probably didn’t expect (or want) to watch. Certain services, like TikTok, Instagram, and X, are entirely based on autoplaying videos as soon as ...

VLC Player has been my go-to video app for years, dating back to the good ol’ Windows XP days. That loyalty progressed to Android, and I still use it across desktop and mobile for my video content ...

Hamza is a certified Technical Support Engineer. The playback stutter, freezing, or black screen issue in VLC Media Player is a common problem that prevents videos from playing smoothly. It may cause ...

Autoplay, a feature that automatically begins the next episode or movie without user input, has become a staple of modern streaming platforms like Netflix. But how much is this convenience truly ...

VLC isn’t just one of the most capable video player apps out there, but one of the most popular PC apps of all time. It’s entirely free, it’s open-source, and it’s so widely loved by nearly everyone.

At CES 2025, non-profit organization VideoLAN announced that their open-source media player app VLC Media Player crossed an incredible milestone: over 6 billion downloads, TechCrunch reports.

VideoLAN teased the technology at CES 2025 and shared some videos of it in action. Essentially, VLC will use AI to automatically generate subtitles for videos. The AI will also be able to translate ...

VideoLAN shows off the creation and translation of subtitles in more than 100 languages, all offline. VideoLAN shows off the creation and translation of subtitles in more than 100 languages, all ...